According to this article long-term loneliness increases your chances of developing cancer as well as heart diseases and high blood pressure. It's believed that prolonged loneliness alters your GENES activity thus damaging your immune system. It's pathetic that people such as those who post on cucktears refuse to admit that inceldom has a profound impact on our physical and mental health. Being unable to attract a partner due to looks is not a laughing matter, governments and health agencies should take this phenomenon seriously.
"Researcher Steven Cole of the University of California, Los Angeles, and his colleagues there and at other institutions found that chronic loneliness triggers a change in gene activity. The initial results published last year showed that people who scored in the top 15 percent of the U.C.L.A. Loneliness Scale, a self-administered psychiatric questionnaire for measuring the emotion, exhibited increased gene activity linked to inflammation and reduced gene activity associated with antibody production and antiviral responses. These patterns of gene expression were specific to loneliness, not to other negative feelings such as depression.
But what could cause these changes? In a new study of 1,023 Taiwanese adults, Cole analyzed data from a variety of lonely people and found that the hormone cortisol was not doing its job of suppressing the genes associated with inflammation. Inflammation is a known risk factor for a variety of serious illnesses, such as heart disease and cancer. Recent animal studies from Cole’s group confirm the link: cortisol receptors stopped working in rhesus monkeys that were socially stressed."
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/loneliness-may-lead-to-serious-illness/
https://thetruthaboutcancer.com/feeling-lonely-cancer-connection/
"Researcher Steven Cole of the University of California, Los Angeles, and his colleagues there and at other institutions found that chronic loneliness triggers a change in gene activity. The initial results published last year showed that people who scored in the top 15 percent of the U.C.L.A. Loneliness Scale, a self-administered psychiatric questionnaire for measuring the emotion, exhibited increased gene activity linked to inflammation and reduced gene activity associated with antibody production and antiviral responses. These patterns of gene expression were specific to loneliness, not to other negative feelings such as depression.
But what could cause these changes? In a new study of 1,023 Taiwanese adults, Cole analyzed data from a variety of lonely people and found that the hormone cortisol was not doing its job of suppressing the genes associated with inflammation. Inflammation is a known risk factor for a variety of serious illnesses, such as heart disease and cancer. Recent animal studies from Cole’s group confirm the link: cortisol receptors stopped working in rhesus monkeys that were socially stressed."
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/loneliness-may-lead-to-serious-illness/
https://thetruthaboutcancer.com/feeling-lonely-cancer-connection/
