This Is The Most Powerful Tool To Improve Your Health with Dr Julian Abel | Feel Better Live More

Today's conversation is about one of my favourite topics – compassion. Compassion doesn’t just make us feel good but it can have powerful effects on our health and longevity. That’s something today’s guest has proved to great effect. Dr Julian Abel is a recently retired consultant in palliative (end of life) care and joint leader of the Frome Project, which aimed to end loneliness and improve health in a town in Somerset, by building community connections. In providing compassionate alternatives to medical intervention, Frome saw emergency hospital admissions drop by 30 percent along with improved quality of life scores, health outcomes and costs.

In this conversation Julian shares the evidence behind using compassion as a therapeutic tool, explaining that good social relationships are more powerful than pretty much any other intervention we have, including giving up smoking, drinking, diet, or exercise in helping us live longer. Compassion is far from the soft approach, it is in fact more powerful than many of the medicines we have.

Julian also talks about his own experience as a palliative care doctor and the lessons he learned from people at the end of their lives. He shares many uplifting and empowering stories that will convince even the biggest skeptic that compassion and connection should be at the centre of everything we do – after all, it is what makes us uniquely human.

Show notes available at https://drchatterjee.com/138

Connect with Julian:
Website https://www.compassionate-communitiesuk.co.uk/projects
Twitter https://twitter.com/julianbel1
Julian’s TED talk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KioC3mogfVc
Julian’s Podcast - Survival of the Kindest https://www.compassionate-communitiesuk.co.uk/podcast

Julian’s book:
The Compassion Project: A case for hope and human kindness from the town that beat loneliness https://amzn.to/2VQutnJ

Related Feel Better Live More Podcast Episodes:
# 104 How Kindness can Boost Your Immune System and Make You Happier: Dr David Hamiltonhttps://youtu.be/2F2g-6lPftI
# 114 Obama's Surgeon General Reveals The Power Of Human Connection in a Lonely World: Vivek Murthy https://youtu.be/4-Pel_rL9Tc

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