Dopamine, phone addictions and how our brains work - with neuroscientist TJ Power

Should I Delete That?

Alex Light & Em Clarkson

Society & Culture, Unknown

4.8 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 7 September 2025

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

Do you find it impossible to stop scrolling? Do you struggle to get motivation? Do you need to listen to a podcast to fall asleep? Today’s guest is here to help you re-balance your brain chemistry...

TJ Power is a neuroscientist and founder of The DOSE Lab - who has made it his mission to explain how our brains work and help us tobreak our addiction to dopamine.

TJ explained how our brains work and gave us real practical advice on how we can re-balance our brain chemistry to live a happier, less anxious life. And boy… did we have a lot of questions to ask him - we basically used this as a personal therapy session.

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Should I Delete That is produced by Faye Lawrence

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Video Editor: Celia Gomez

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0:42.4	There's something like that's magic that happens in our brain when we just let it rest.
0:46.6	And it can only be discovered that it's magic if you just try it a few times.
0:51.5	Hello and welcome back to Should I Delete that? I'm Em Clarkson.
0:54.3	I'm Alex Light.
0:55.6	What a guest we've got for you today.
0:57.7	I hope to say, what a treat we have in store.
0:59.8	What a treat indeed.
1:01.6	And neuroscientist, no less.
1:03.9	A bigger brain has never graced our studio before this.
1:07.5	True.
1:08.9	We felt very enlightened afterwards, didn't we?
1:14.2	Faye was annoyed at us during this episode because we could have gone on for about three hours and we were going on for way too long,
1:18.2	but I have a thousand questions for him. He's left me with more questions than answers.
1:23.3	However, since we recorded that episode, which was a couple of weeks ago now, I have implemented some genuinely life-changing things into my life.
1:32.1	Same.
1:32.7	I said life too many times, but I stand by it.
1:35.5	Like what?
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