What caught my attention with this whole glow kids book I guess was your comparison to heroin or cocaine or you know these really highly addictive drugs right because we wouldn't think of giving that an even small amounts to our children.

And so some of these brain-evitching studies began to show really similar neurophysiological effects

to chronic drug usage.

Again, I mentioned before the prefrontal cortex, our decision making part of our brain, that

DGM, that dense gray matter for a chronic substance abuser, begins to shrink over time.

It actually atrophy's. And so as you mentioned really

insightfully before it becomes a double whammy. You're addicted to a

substance and now that part of the brain that might make you hopefully not be

so impulsive towards that

substance is broken. Okay you guys I have never been this is this is my favorite

interview we have done on the now that we're a family podcast so far and I think it's

because I feel so strongly about this especially as we are raising children

with a multi-generational vision, we need healthy children

and for healthy families.

And so this is something that is impacting the core of our kids.

How we're using screens is not just a preference it is so much deeper than

that and I feel like Dr. Cardaris does an incredible job of bringing to the

surface so much of what's going on behind the screens. to the Sure, okay I'll read his bio from Google Books. This is from

2022, so pretty pretty up to date, it seems like. I mean, well I guess we're

2024 now, so maybe I should have found it more current. This is the most current one I could find.

Dr Nicholas Cardaris is an Ivy League educated psychologist, one of the country's

foremost addiction and mental health experts, and the best-selling author of Glow Kids.

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