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Optimal Health Daily - Fitness and Nutrition

2477: Honey, I Shrunk My Brain Using My Mobile Phone by Dr. Jenny Brockis

Optimal Health Daily - Fitness and Nutrition

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Fitness, Health & Fitness, Nutrition

4.4671 Ratings

🗓️ 2 March 2024

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Discover all of the podcasts in our network, search for specific episodes, get the Optimal Living Daily workbook, and learn more at: OLDPodcast.com. Episode 2477: Dr. Jenny Brockis explores the complex relationship between technology and cognitive function in "Honey, I Shrunk My Brain Using My Mobile Phone." She navigates the benefits and pitfalls of our digital world, emphasizing the need for mindful engagement with technology to harness its advantages while mitigating its negative impacts on our brains and relationships. Read along with the original article(s) here: https://drjennybrockis.com/2016/10/2/honey-i-shrunk-my-brain-using-my-mobile-phone/ Quotes to ponder: "Being aware of this cognitive cost means you might want to think twice before feeling tempted to fill in that free 5 minutes updating your Instagram, because the reality is you’ve just allocated almost half an hour to less focused activity." Episode references: Tim Berners-Lee - Inventor of the World Wide Web: https://webfoundation.org/about/vision/history-of-the-web/ Gloria Mark's Research on Interruption and Information Technology: https://ics.uci.edu/~gmark/chi08-mark.pdf Study on Media Multitasking and Gray Matter Density: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4174517/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Indeed.com slash show. Terms and conditions apply. This is Optimal Health Daily, episode 2477. Honey, I shrunk my brain using my mobile phone. Dr. Jenny Brockes of Dr. Jennybrokis.com.

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And I'm Dr. Neal, your host and narrator.

1:51.0

Hey there, happy Saturday. I hope your weekend is off to a great start. And welcome back to

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Optimal Health Daily or O.HD, where I act as your narrator of popular health and fitness blogs and always

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provide a bit of my commentary at the end. And don't forget, we have a bunch of shows covering

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different topics. Just search for Optimal Living Daily in your podcast app to find all of them.

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But with that, let's get right to it and start optimizing your life.

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Honey, I shrunk my brain using my mobile phone by Dr. Jenny Brockes of Dr. Jenny Brockes.com.

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One of the questions I frequently get asked is, is our technology dumbing us down?

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