"And often, one of the best ways to get the advantages of social support is to be a source of support -- when everything feels empty and pointless, the knowledge that someone else is being comforted and helped by your existence is pretty powerful. Amazingly, if you're a baboon, grooming someone lowers your cortisol levels more effectively than being groomed (yeah, I didn't believe that either when I first heard about the finding)''.

Sapolsky

"The implications of this finding are monumental! Why isn't this being sung from the hilltops? Helping people is better than being helped as far as our OWN mental health goes?''