It started with a quiet moment. A woman sitting alone in her apartment, phone in hand, surrounded by a sea of digital connections, messages, likes, updates, yet feeling completely unseen. She didn’t know it, but her brain was responding to that loneliness the same way it would to hunger. Neurons dimmed. Pathways slowed. The body was whispering a truth she’d forgotten: connection isn’t optional; it’s nourishment. And in a world where silence grows louder than conversation, tha