What Happens When Isolation Isn't Chosen
Loneliness in older adults gets filed as a soft mental health story. The literature says something harder: chronic involuntary isolation carries mortality risk comparable to major medical conditions, rewires the immune system, and accelerates biological aging at the cellular level. This episode separates social isolation from loneliness — the objective fact from the subjective feeling — and traces how they leave different fingerprints on the body, from cortisol slopes and inflammatory markers to gray matter volume and epigenetic aging clocks. It also asks the uncomfortable question Daniel…
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