winfrey passed by hello . don t be surprised if she does that. does she do that? yes, of course. piers, we should say that you can ask her when she joins us. she s going to be joining us with skype. we re working on this campaign with skype. that s part of the way you can say hello, by the way, just skyping with people. listen, i ve got three son who live in england, for example. i think without skype it would be incredibly difficult to hold down a job in a different country to my sons. but because of skype it s almost like you re in the room. we re going to discuss the social aspect of that technology in a later segment. that in itself can bring up its own problems. let me ask you, gail, you ever lonely? you re such a gregarious character by nature. have you had periods of genuine loneliness? i had to think about this. i actually did. there s a difference between being alone and being lonely. absolutely. i don t mind moments when i m alone. i like it but i don t want
or is it also a medically diagnosable physical pain? well, it is a physical pain as well. what i mean by that, let me be precise, the areas of the brain that are responsible for physical pain, those are the same areas of the brain that will light up in someone who has chronic loneliness. they feel physical pain by all intents and purposes. so they are really suffering in that regard. but they also because of the increased inflammation, because of the suppressed immune system, they re more likely to die early and have all these different problems. you ve got this video campaign, just say hello. we ll have a look at it now. when was the last time you said hello to a stranger passing you on the street, to a friend you hadn t seen in years? hi. hi. how you doing? hello. oh, hello there. just imagining how most of my viewers would feel if oprah winfrey passed by hello .
possibly becoming associated with all these other physical findings. key finding, loneliness by itself more than obesity, more than chronic alcohol use, more than air pollution, leads to early death. quite incredible here. pollution increases your risk or early death by 6%, obesity 23%, excessive alcohol 37%. research has found that loneliness can increase your risk by a whopping 45%, more than those other three. gayle, i was astonished by that. i was, too. when he first brought it to the magazine. it s the type of thing nobody wants to talk about. people would rather say they re depressed than lonely. if i say i m lonely you think i m a loser, i don t have any friends, nobody likes me, you think what s wrong with me. when he brought this idea to us and said if we could just encourage people to talk to each other. and it was so in the dna of the magazine. oprah s all about connecting people with just a simple word of saying hello. amazing reaction to this. yes. we just launched
physical findings. key finding, loneliness by itself more than obesity, more than chronic alcohol use, more than air pollution, leads to early death. quite incredible here. pollution increases your risk or early death by 6%, obesity 23%, excessive alcohol 37%. research has found that loneliness can increase your risk by a whopping 45%, more than those other three gail i was astonished by it. i was, too. when he first brought it to the magazine. it s the type of thing nobody wants to talk about. people would rather say they re depressed than lonely. if i say i m lonely you think i m a loser, i don t have any friend, nobody likes me, you think what s wrong with me. when he brought this idea to us and said if we could just encourage people to talk to each other. and it was so in the dna of the magazine. oprah s all about connecting people with just a simple word of saying hello. amazing reaction to this. yes. we just launched yesterday.
thing, and that is to be validated, to be seen and to be heard. and what i learned on the oprah show is that all the interviews that i did, although thousands of them and multiple subjects, at the end of almost every interview in one form or another somebody would always lean in and say, was that okay? was that okay? and i started to see that pattern. and what i realized is that everybody is looking for the same thing. no matter if it s politicians, senators, presidents, beyonce in all of her beyonce ness, we re all looking to know did you see me, did you hear me, and did what i say mean anything to you. so just saying hello is a way of validating even a stranger. and oprah, do you actually go around practicing what you preach? i can t imagine you walking down the street barking hello at