social isolation

Here are some additional reading resources on much of what I cover in my 5 minute presentation:

• Pyroluria is a social anxiety condition that is not well recognized in the medical community. It responds really well to a few key nutrients, with zinc and vitamin B6 forming the foundation. I cover this in this blog post: Pyroluria, high mauve, pyrrole disorder, malvaria, elevated kryptopyrroles and social anxiety.
• Here is a link to the Pyroluria Questionnaire from my book The Antianxiety Food Solution (which has an entire chapter on the topic). I created this questionnaire using the work of Carl Pfeiffer and Joan Mathews-Larson, modifying it based on feedback I receive from my clients.
• I discuss how I first discovered the pyroluria-introversion connection here – Am I an anxious introvert because of low zinc and vitamin B6? My response to Huffington Post blog. I wrote this in response to the Huffington Post article, “23 Signs You’re Secretly An Introvert”, by Carolyn Gregoire.
• Here is the webmd loneliness article with this quote: “Loneliness has the same impact on mortality as smoking 15 cigarettes a day, making it even more dangerous than obesity” ~ Douglas Nemecek, MD, chief medical officer for behavioral health, Cigna
• And this loneliness paper, Loneliness and Social Isolation as Risk Factors for Mortality: A Meta-Analytic Review
• In this blog I write about how Increased sociability improves vagus nerve function: the role of social anxiety, pyroluria and low zinc

This is the the amazing and inspiring group of speakers who I shared the stage with:

• Amie Apigan – Why Attachment is the New Field of Medicine
• Lauryn Lax – Eating Healthy is Killing You
• Jess Sherman – Raising Resilient Kids in a Complex World: Will we Rise to the Challenge
• Terry Wahls – Creating an Epidemic of Health – My Radical Path
• Susanne Bennett – The Kimchi Revolution: How an Ancient Food Can Transform the Future of Health
• Razi Berry – Love is Medicine
• Kaylea Boutwell – I’ve Got Your Back: Novel Pain Therapies Transforming Spinal Care Outcomes
• Dana Cohen – Hydration: 8 Glasses a Day is not the Way!
• Elisa Song – Breathing Life into Your Kids
• Joel Sprechman – Creating 1M Super Poopers & Evolving Crohn’s Colitis
• Katy Kimball – My Plan to Empty Your Waiting Rooms (the Real Root Cause of Poor Health)
• Heather Paulson – Why Choose? Using the Best of Both Worlds to Experience Health with Cancer
• James Maskell – Group Visits: How Functional Medicine Reaches the Vulnerable
• Mehgan Walker – Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Chronic Disease: Why Chasing Happiness is Making us Sick

(do let me know if you’d like me to share any of these presentations in the follow-up blog)