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What if the secret to a happier, healthier, and potentially longer life isn't simply loving others, but feeling loved ourselves?

In Episode 77 of The Rest Is Health, Dr. Sandra Cammarata and Dr. Giovanni Campanile welcome Dr. Sonja Lyubomirsky, Distinguished Professor of Psychology at the University of California, Riverside, and internationally recognized researcher in the science of happiness.

With more than three decades of research into happiness and well-being, Dr. Lyubomirsky shares why meaningful human connections are so important to our emotional and physical health. Drawing from her latest book, How to Feel Loved, she explains how gratitude, kindness, curiosity, and genuine connection can help us cultivate lasting happiness.

Together, they explore the difference between giving love and feeling loved, why some relationships thrive while others become one-sided, and how meaningful social connections influence our health throughout different stages of life. The conversation also examines the growing role of artificial intelligence in companionship and whether AI can ever truly replace human connection.

From the science of happiness to its relationship with longevity, this episode explores why feeling connected to others may be one of the most important aspects of living a healthier, more fulfilling life.

In this episode:

• Why feeling loved is essential to happiness and emotional well-being
• The science behind gratitude, kindness, and lasting happiness
• How listening, curiosity, and sharing can strengthen relationships
• The difference between giving love and feeling loved
• Why some relationships become unbalanced and when to recognize it
• How AI companionship may influence loneliness and human connection
• The relationship between happiness, physical health, and longevity
• Practical ways to cultivate deeper, more meaningful relationships

Discover how the science of happiness can change the way we approach relationships, health, and longevity.

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Website: https://sonjalyubomirsky.com/

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Join Dr. Sandra Cammarata and Dr. Giovanni Campanile as they speak with Dr. Daniel Lieberman, renowned paleoanthropologist, Professor of Human Evolutionary Biology at Harvard University, and author of Fed Up: What Evolution Reveals about Food, Diet, Health and Eating Well. Internationally recognized for his research on human evolution, physical activity, and health, Dr. Lieberman has spent decades exploring how our evolutionary history influences the way we live, eat, and experience disease.

Drawing from his extensive research and latest book, Fed Up, Dr. Lieberman explores how millions of years of evolution have shaped our relationship with food and why modern eating habits often conflict with the biological adaptations of our ancestors. He examines how changes in food production, dietary patterns, and modern lifestyles have contributed to rising rates of obesity, metabolic disorders, and other chronic diseases.

In this episode, Dr. Lieberman discusses:

• How human evolution has shaped our dietary needs and eating behaviors
• Why modern diets can create evolutionary mismatches that contribute to chronic disease
• The science behind popular dietary trends, including paleo, carnivore, and plant-based diets
• How ultra-processed foods, added sugars, and reduced fiber intake influence metabolic health
• Why obesity and weight management are more complicated than simply eating less
• What traditional diets can teach us about making healthier food choices today

Throughout the conversation, Dr. Lieberman challenges common misconceptions about what humans are naturally supposed to eat, explaining why there is no single perfect ancestral diet. He emphasizes the importance of understanding both our evolutionary biology and the modern food environment when making decisions about nutrition and long-term health.

Listeners will gain a deeper understanding of why our bodies respond to food the way they do, how our evolutionary past continues to influence modern health, and what science can teach us about eating well in a world vastly different from the one in which we evolved.

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Join Dr. Sandra Cammarata and Dr. Giovanni Campanile as they speak with Dr. Christin Glorioso, an MIT-trained neuroscientist, physician, entrepreneur, and pioneer in the study of human brain aging. Dr. Glorioso is the co-founder and CEO of NeuroAge Therapeutics, where she combines neuroscience, genetics, biomarkers, and advanced technology to better understand how the brain ages and what we may be able to do about it.

For Dr. Glorioso, the science of longevity is also personal. After seeing Alzheimer's disease affect multiple generations of her family and learning about her own genetic risk, she became determined to better understand the aging process within the brain. That pursuit eventually led her to use herself as what she calls "guinea pig number one," tracking her own brain health while developing the comprehensive testing approach behind NeuroAge.

In this episode, Dr. Glorioso explores how changes in the brain can begin years before noticeable cognitive symptoms appear and why understanding those changes earlier could create new opportunities to protect long-term brain health. She discusses the importance of the hippocampus and memory, genetic risk factors such as APOE4, and how MRI imaging, blood biomarkers, cognitive testing, and other measurements can provide a more complete picture of how an individual's brain is aging.

The conversation also looks at what we can potentially do with that information. Dr. Glorioso discusses research surrounding exercise and hippocampal volume, along with the roles of nutrition, sleep, physical activity, social connection, and other lifestyle factors in supporting cognitive health.

Listeners will gain a deeper understanding of the emerging science of biological brain age, the difference between genetic risk and destiny, and how a more personalized and proactive approach may help us better understand and care for our brains throughout the aging process.

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