The UK’s new Minister of Loneliness to battle ‘a poison to humans’

Last week, British Prime Minister Theresa May appointed an official “minister of loneliness” to the government. 

It’s not as bizarre as one might think at first. In fact, experts who study the health effects of chronic loneliness are cheering the move. 

Combating a disease whose cause isn’t so outwardly pernicious — like cigarette use or alcoholism — is expected to be a challenging task, but one scientists and doctors say is critical. Isolation from others makes us sick, and can cause direct, often deadly harm to our bodies.

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