Episode 118: Why Gaming is Addictive and What We Can Do w/ Dr. Alok Kanojia

The Whole View with Stacy Toth

Cloud10

Alternative Health, Health & Fitness, Nutrition

4.7 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 21 June 2024

⏱️ 74 minutes

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Psychiatrist and co-founder of the Healthy Gamer, Dr. Alok Kanojia, or “Dr. K”, joins Stacy to discuss why healthy use of technology has become harder, why parenting skills of the past don’t translate into the modern day, and ways to have encouraging and inquisitive conversations with our kids. Dr. K shares alarming statistics about gaming and gaming addiction in men and boys, and explains the allure of toxic masculinity proponents as sources of emotional validation. Find Dr. Kanojia: HealthyGamer.gg YouTube.com/HealthyGamerGG Twitter.com/HealthyGamerGG Twitch.com/healthygamer_GG TikTok.com/@healthygamer.gg Instagram.com/healthygamer_gg Find more ways to connect on through Dr. K's Linktree Don’t forget to subscribe to this channel and visit realeverything.com! If you haven't yet unlocked ad-free content, checkout patreon.com/thewholeview. Your subscription goes to support this show and gets you direct access to submit your questions! We also want to give a big thank you to this week’s sponsors! ButcherBox.com/wholeview | Use code WHOLEVIEW to get your choice of free protein for a year + $20 off your first order! Shaklee.com/site/stacytoth/storefront | Learn more at realeverything.com/shaklee and reach out for a special offer! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	And this is what really surprises parents is that most kids want to spend less time on their phone.
0:06.4	Most kids want to play fewer video games.
0:24.6	Welcome to the whole view. I'm Stacy Toth of Real Everything and I'm here each week to dive deeper into how we can find happiness and health inside and out through self-love, body positivity, and discovering new ways to be our best selves. Before we get started, a reminder this podcast is for general educational purposes and has not
0:28.8	intended to diagnose, advise, or treat any physical or mental illness and well Dr Alok is a psychiatrist he's not yours and so we always
0:37.2	recommend that you see a licensed health professional accordingly that, I want to welcome Dr. Kay is what people call you. But as I mentioned while we were
0:49.5	chatting, it's important to me to share, respect people's names, and so it's Aloke,
0:57.0	Canogee as a doctor.
1:00.0	Canogee.
1:01.0	Yeah.
1:02.0	Okay, there we go. and you are a doctor, psychiatrist, but also an incredible online
1:09.7	educator of multitude of, but specifically founder of Healthy
1:15.0	gamer and host of both the Healthy Gamer,
1:18.0	G.G. Podcasts as well as YouTube,
1:20.0	with over 2 million subscribers.
1:22.0	And listeners, you may have heard him on the diary of the CEO or
1:25.0	Mel Robbins Podcast and his book How to Race a Healthy gamer helps readers overcome screen addiction
1:32.4	and set healthy boundaries with technologies,
1:34.7	which I get so many questions on as mom of multiple teenage boys.
1:41.1	And I think also, as you you say with tech companies investing billions of
1:44.8	dollars on research to get and hold the attention of people especially children
1:49.0	parents are really the only potential protection from screen addiction and creating some healthy
1:55.0	boundaries that children have before they reach adulthood.
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