The Prescription for Loneliness with Julia Hotz

The Dr. Drew Podcast

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Talk Radio, Comedy, Science, Health & Fitness

4.4 • 3K Ratings

🗓️ 2 October 2024

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

This week, Dr. Drew talks to journalist and author Julia Hotz. Julia shares insights from her book, The Connection Cure, exploring how loneliness affects our health as severely as smoking 15 cigarettes a day. Together with Dr. Drew, they unpack the concept of "social prescribing"—a revolutionary approach where doctors prescribe activities like volunteering, nature walks, and community engagement instead of just medication. Julia explains how communal living, purpose, and meaning can transform mental health and combat the growing epidemic of loneliness, depression, and anxiety.

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0:00.0	All being here.
0:02.0	Here,
0:03.0	The
0:04.0	The
0:08.0	All right everybody,
0:10.0	everybody welcome to Dr.
0:11.0	Piedechis,
0:12.0	you all being here, appreciate the support and again if you have any
0:15.8	guest you'd like to see interviewed contact at Dr.rud.com we'll look at all that there.
0:20.3	Today Julia Holtz, she's a Solutions Focus journalist, author of the Connection Cure,
0:25.0	chronicling the science stories and spread of social connection and prescribing sociality.
0:32.0	She works at the Solutions Journalism Network
0:36.3	where she helps the journalists rigorously report on what's working to solve
0:40.6	today's biggest problems of which I would argue loneliness and
0:44.0	connection is amongst the biggest.
0:46.0	Julia welcome.
0:47.0	Amen. Thank you so much Dr Drew.
0:49.4	It was such an honor to be here.
0:51.0	Tell us about sort of how you got into this and what your thoughts
0:54.3	are a lot of big territory to cover here. Yeah a lot of ground to cover and you know a
0:59.6	lot of this builds on things I've been hearing you say for years and it starts with this idea
1:05.5	that you know social connection is fundamental to living well and before I became
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