224: Screen addiction

Wise Traditions

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Wellness, Health & Fitness, Alternative Health, Nutrition, Diet, Health

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🗓️ 20 January 2020

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

We tell ourselves we're only going to get on our phones for a second and 30 minutes later we're still on them. We give our children an iPad to entertain them and when we take it away, a huge meltdown follows. What's happening? Why are we, and virtually everyone we know, so addicted to our devices?

Katie Singer, the author of "An Electronic Silent Spring," explains what's going on. She talks about the radiation and the infrastructure that supports our electronic habits. But she also does a deep dive into why we've become so dependent on our laptops, computers, and phones. And she gives us practical tools (such as setting an egg timer and turning off wifi) to help us extricate ourselves from our attachment to them.

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0:00.0	So screen time exposure can cause addiction, it can cause agitation, memory loss,
0:08.6	distractedness, where so like say you're driving and you can't you can't turn away from a text message
0:17.4	that's a problem if you're driving with the phone because you can't get away from the phone. That's a screen time
0:24.6	addiction. When you get a text message, say it's your first text message, the
0:30.3	brain says, oh I like that. I want more of that.
0:34.0	And then it goes for more.
0:35.3	And bingo, you're on the road to getting addicted.
0:39.2	What's interesting is that the frequencies that these devices use to operate activate this response.
0:48.0	It's called the dopamine effect and we've heard of that in terms of drugs, including heroin.
0:54.3	But we now have scientists who are saying that the frequencies that they're
0:59.0	reporting, that the frequencies that are required in order to operate a mobile device, these very same
1:08.1	frequencies activate the dopamine effect. From the Westin A Price Foundation, welcome to the Wise Traditions podcast for Wise Traditions in Food, Farming, and the Healing Arts.
1:25.8	We are your source for scientific knowledge and traditional wisdom to help you achieve optimal
1:30.4	health. Hey, Holistic Yielda here.
1:40.8	This is episode 224 and our guest today is Katie Singer.
1:45.0	Katie is the author of an electronic silent spring.
1:48.0	This is a book about the health and environmental effects of exposure to electromagnetic radiation.
1:53.0	Today we focus on both the physical impact of our devices
1:56.0	and the psychological impact as well.
2:00.0	We spend time discussing how to help our children break their screen addiction.
2:04.0	But let's face it, it's not just the kids who are addicted, we are too.
2:08.0	These devices are designed to activate our brain's pleasure center.
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