Alfred Anduze

Social Connections and Your Health (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Social Connections and Your Health is a contemporary look at the origins, evolution, history, and science of human social life. In the text we look at where this behavior came from, where it is at present and where it maybe going. The biochemistry of socializing and the formation and management of social connections involving the presence and activity of feel-good hormones and feel-bad hormones vying for expression and based on genetics, environment, and oxidative stress are presented in terms of positive and negative effects. Pro-Social and antisocial behavior are discussed with emphasis on the influence of each on human interactions as well as on the mental and physical health of individuals and groups, with respect to their association with anxiety, depression, heart disease, dementias, cancer and neurodegenerative diseases. Friendships and hostilities, cooperation and conflicts are closely linked to longevity and quality of life. We see how anti-social behavior manifests itself in lack of basic manners, rudeness, snobbery, selfishness, us vs them exclusions and the concept of "others" and its resultant dysfunctional societies. Social experiences compare the effects of friendliness and indifference in shaping the character of a people within counties and regions. Protocols for building and improving social skills among the various age groups are suggested and provided. The effects of social distancing and isolation in the present Covid pandemic are examined and possible solutions to minimize the damages to mental and physical health are provided. Emphasis is placed throughout on the importance of socializing across diverse lines and the quality and quantity of social behavior and its close connections with good health.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Yorkshire Publishing
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Dezember 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781957262024
• Artikelnr.: 63096169

Autorenporträt

Alfred Lee Anduze, MD is a native Virgin Islander, with family roots in France, Puerto Rico, and Easter United States. Growing up among the great storytellers and fabricators of a small but cosmopolitan multiethnic community, he acquired an unquenchable love for reading and global travel. As a practicing ophthalmologist, producing scientific papers for journals and lecturing on the international circuit, he wrote original stories, crosswords and articles on Caribbean subjects. After serving his community in various faculty and administrative positions, and lecturing on Ophthalmic surgery in 32 countries, he acquired an Andrew Weil Fellowship in Integrative Medicine and a Masters certificate in Herbal Medicine. In 2012, he retired to farm medicinal plants and organic coffee in the mountains of Puerto Rico. Away from the halls of conventional medicine, he strongly advocates that the best way to treat disease is Prevention, not to get sick in the first place. By applying the basic principles of science to understanding the causes of disease, one can attain and maintain good health and well being in the 21st century, through natural means. He can be reached at [e-mail]