--- title: "Claim Ledger: Your Health Has a Dashboard. Your Relationships Don't." description: "One you schedule. The other you leave to a mood." author: "Harry Floyd" publication: "The Durability Curve" canonical: "https://durabilitycurve.com/claims/your-health-has-a-dashboard/" essay: "https://durabilitycurve.com/blog/your-health-has-a-dashboard/" substack: "https://harryfloyd.substack.com/p/your-health-has-a-dashboard" published: "2026-09-23" ledger_date: "2026-09-23" claims: 10 removed_before_publication: 0 --- # Claim Ledger: Your Health Has a Dashboard. Your Relationships Don't. *One you schedule. The other you leave to a mood.* Essay: https://durabilitycurve.com/blog/your-health-has-a-dashboard/ Ledger (canonical, cite this): https://durabilitycurve.com/claims/your-health-has-a-dashboard/ Published 2026-09-23 · last verified 2026-09-23 ## The evidence, row by row Labels: VERIFIED = checked against the primary source itself by a checker who did not draft the piece, usually with the exact words, where they sit and the date read · EXECUTED = a run or observation done for the piece (code, a query, a count, or a check made live in an app); the claim is what it returned; run records are not published · CHECKED = checked against its source by a separate checker in the older ledger format, which recorded no quote, locator or date · REPORTED = not verified word for word against a primary source (secondary, not openable in full, or supported only in part); the essay words it accordingly · STRUCK = drafted, checked and removed before publication · EXCLUDED = considered and deliberately left out. ### C1. The meta-analysis pooled 148 studies and 308,849 participants - Status: VERIFIED (read 2026-09-21) - Row link: https://durabilitycurve.com/claims/your-health-has-a-dashboard/#c-C1 - Quote: "Across 148 studies (308,849 participants), the random effects weighted average effect size was OR = 1.50" - Source: Holt-Lunstad, Smith & Layton 2010, PLoS Medicine 7(7):e1000316, Abstract (Results) - URL: https://journals.plos.org/plosmedicine/article?id=10.1371/journal.pmed.1000316 ### C2. Participants were followed for an average of seven and a half years - Status: VERIFIED (read 2026-09-21) - Row link: https://durabilitycurve.com/claims/your-health-has-a-dashboard/#c-C2 - Quote: "Participants were followed for an average of 7.5 years (SD = 7.1, range = 3 months to 58 years)" - Source: Holt-Lunstad et al. 2010, PLoS Medicine, Abstract (Methods) - URL: https://journals.plos.org/plosmedicine/article?id=10.1371/journal.pmed.1000316 ### C3. Stronger social relationships → a 50% increased likelihood of survival, OR 1.50 (95% CI 1.42–1.59) - Status: VERIFIED (read 2026-09-21) - Row link: https://durabilitycurve.com/claims/your-health-has-a-dashboard/#c-C3 - Quote: "OR = 1.50 (95% CI 1.42 to 1.59)" and "a 50% increased likelihood of survival for participants with stronger social relationships" - Source: Holt-Lunstad et al. 2010, PLoS Medicine, Abstract (Results / Conclusions) - URL: https://journals.plos.org/plosmedicine/article?id=10.1371/journal.pmed.1000316 ### C4. Complex measures of social integration carried the largest pooled association, OR 1.91 (95% CI 1.63–2.23) - Status: VERIFIED (read 2026-09-21) - Row link: https://durabilitycurve.com/claims/your-health-has-a-dashboard/#c-C4 - Quote: "OR = 1.91; 95% CI 1.63 to 2.23" - Source: Holt-Lunstad et al. 2010, PLoS Medicine, Results — moderator analysis by type of assessment (complex measures of social integration) - URL: https://journals.plos.org/plosmedicine/article?id=10.1371/journal.pmed.1000316 ### C5. The meta-analysis reported substantial between-study heterogeneity, I²=81% - Status: VERIFIED (read 2026-09-21) - Row link: https://durabilitycurve.com/claims/your-health-has-a-dashboard/#c-C5 - Quote: "I2 = 81% [95% CI = 78% to 84%]" - Source: Holt-Lunstad et al. 2010, PLoS Medicine, Results (overall heterogeneity) - URL: https://journals.plos.org/plosmedicine/article?id=10.1371/journal.pmed.1000316 ### C6. The 2010 paper framed the effect-size magnitude as comparable to quitting smoking - Status: VERIFIED (read 2026-09-21) - Row link: https://durabilitycurve.com/claims/your-health-has-a-dashboard/#c-C6 - Quote: "The magnitude of this effect is comparable with quitting smoking and it exceeds many well-known risk factors for mortality" - Source: Holt-Lunstad et al. 2010, PLoS Medicine, Discussion - URL: https://journals.plos.org/plosmedicine/article?id=10.1371/journal.pmed.1000316 ### C7. The authors issued a 2024 author note correcting the Figure 6 cross-risk comparisons; the relationship result itself stood - Status: VERIFIED (read 2026-09-21) - Row link: https://durabilitycurve.com/claims/your-health-has-a-dashboard/#c-C7 - Quote: "our original conclusion about Figure 6 in the text of the 2010 publication remains consistent: the magnitude of the effect of social relationships is on par with other widely recognized risk factors for mortality" (author note, posted 30 April 2024; error was inconsistent risk-ratio/odds-ratio/hazard-ratio conversion across the comparison meta-analyses) - Source: Holt-Lunstad et al., Author Note: Figure 6, PLOS Medicine, Author note / annotation, 30 April 2024 - URL: https://journals.plos.org/plosmedicine/article/comment?id=10.1371/annotation/e56c92ac-9c2f-4d4e-9e96-b092b8b967b7 ### C8. The authors noted that statistical controls used by many included studies rule out a number of potential confounders; the association held after adjustment, though controlled effect sizes ran lower in magnitude than raw (backs §4 "adjusted for many of these and the association held, but adjustment is not proof") - Status: VERIFIED (read 2026-09-22) - Row link: https://durabilitycurve.com/claims/your-health-has-a-dashboard/#c-C8 - Quote: "Statistical controls (e.g., age, sex, physical condition, etc.) employed by many of the studies rule out a number of potentially confounding variables that might account for the association between social relationships and mortality" (Discussion); "effect sizes based on data controlling for other variables were lower in magnitude than those based on raw data" (Results) - Source: Holt-Lunstad et al. 2010, PLoS Medicine, Discussion (statistical controls) + Results (controlled vs raw) - URL: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC2910600/ ### C9. A within-person daily study found people reported greater happiness and belonging on days with more weak-tie / acquaintance contact; weak ties relate to social and emotional well-being. OUTCOME = well-being, NOT survival (used in §5 to support breadth, scoped as a different outcome from the mortality meta) - Status: VERIFIED (read 2026-09-22) - Row link: https://durabilitycurve.com/claims/your-health-has-a-dashboard/#c-C9 - Quote: "In Study 1, students experienced greater happiness and greater feelings of belonging on days when they interacted with more classmates than usual... we again found that weak ties are related to social and emotional well-being. The current results highlight the power of weak ties, suggesting that even social interactions with the more peripheral members of our social networks contribute to our well-being." - Source: Sandstrom & Dunn 2014, Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin 40(7):910–922, Abstract - URL: https://repository.essex.ac.uk/15300/ ### C10. The lowest category in the moderator analysis was a binary living-alone measure, OR 1.19 (footnote 3) - Status: VERIFIED (read 2026-09-23) - Row link: https://durabilitycurve.com/claims/your-health-has-a-dashboard/#c-C10 - Quote: "the association was strongest for complex measures of social integration (OR = 1.91; 95% CI 1.63 to 2.23) and lowest for binary indicators of residential status (living alone versus with others) (OR = 1.19" - Source: Holt-Lunstad et al. 2010, PLoS Medicine, Abstract (Results) - URL: https://journals.plos.org/plosmedicine/article?id=10.1371/journal.pmed.1000316 ## Cite - A claim: name the original source (and its locator) first, then the row it was checked in, e.g. ", . Checked in: Claim Ledger, "Your Health Has a Dashboard. Your Relationships Don't.", The Durability Curve, row , https://durabilitycurve.com/claims/your-health-has-a-dashboard/#c-." - The essay: Floyd, Harry (2026). Your Health Has a Dashboard. Your Relationships Don't.. 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