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If You Want a Long and Healthy Life, Try Altruism

What if there were a drug out there that cost nothing to produce, required no prescription, and made people live longer, feel happier and less stressed, and sleep better? There’d be a run on the pharmacies.

But this wonder drug isn’t a drug. It’s altruism and compassion, a team of experts in the benefits of helping others told a crowd at an event co-presented by Kaiser Permanente at the Goethe-Institut Los Angeles.

Stephen G. Post, bioethicist and founder of the Institute for Research on Unlimited Love, pointed to a United Healthcare study …