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a new study on loneliness is showing it may not only affect your mental health.
It may also be bad for your bones who knew.
However, the study found it impacts one group in particular.
We're talking about men
amid concerns about the rising epidemic of loneliness.
Researchers wanted to take a closer look at its effects.
Those working on the study exposed adult
mice to social isolation and found that there
were significant reductions in bone quality and mineral
density but only in the male mice,
not the females.
One doctor involved in the research did note that future research
is needed to understand how these findings translate to human populations.
So from what I read, one amount was kept in a cage by itself,
four mice were kept in other cages together.
And the four mice that were together did substantially better,
both mentally and when it came to their bone density
as opposed to the mouse who lived alone in the bone
part is I think what's interesting because you obviously would know
serotonin levels are going up and all that other thing,
all the other things that make you happy,
but the fact that it impacts other things besides your mental health is huge.
But, you know, we've even had the surgeon general,
Vivek Murdy sounding the alarm right now about the dangers of loneliness right now,
not just on younger teens because of the pandemic,
but for everybody involved that this is going to become
a much larger conversation that we're gonna be having now.
All right, meantime, let's talk about what's happening over on earth.
Human water use is literally changing the tilt of the planet from 1993 to 2010.
Humans pumped over 2000 giga tons of groundwater
from the reservoirs in the earth's crust.
It had changed the tilt of the earth's access by 30 one inches.
That's according to the authors of a new study by the American Geophysical Union,
the earth's axis changes often
and the melting of the polar ice caps or the
rise in sea levels makes an impact on earth's rotation.
However, this shows that groundwater use also has an impact as well.
Now, by the way, if you've ever wondered how the planet came to be covered in H2O,
this is interesting,
a new theory published last week in the
journal nature suggests that 4.5 billion years ago
earth was formed, it sucked up icy particles from space in a vacuum effect.
So possibly in other solar systems,
planets similar to earth could have been could have
water and maybe even life on them as well.
They actually believe that uh sodium chloride.
So salt particles that you use regularly in table salt are on asteroids. And
so when that hits earth, that salt then creates water,
which created so much of the body of water on here.
And they found that out from an asteroid that uh that was in Japan just recently.
So this is why you have places like Earth and Mars that have water on them because of,
uh, because apparently of salt.
Uh, ok, both stories. You just
mind boggling.
Let's go back to the one where humans taking ground
water out is actually causing our access to tilt.
That's no,
I never ever thought about it. I
know
for a whole planet to tilt because us humans. Right.