Get Outside! The Indoor Epidemic Is Real and It’s Wrecking Our Brains

Under the Influence with Jo Piazza

Jo Piazza, Influence Inc.

Society & Culture, Kids & Family, Parenting, Personal Journals, Technology

4.3 • 833 Ratings

🗓️ 16 April 2026

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

We’ve become an indoor species and it is making us sick and burnt out. Today we're chatting with Dr. John La Puma about the indoor epidemic and what happens when we spend almost all of our time inside under artificial light and on screens. We break down what that’s doing to sleep, mood, and focus. Dr. La Puma explains how something as simple as stepping outside each day for 17 minutes can reset your brain, improve sleep, and help you think more clearly. We also get into kids, screen time, and why the way they're living now isn’t setting them for happiness. Please listen to this one outside. Grab a copy of John La Puma's Indoor Epidemic here. Find Dr. John here. Join our newsletter community here. ORDER The Parisian Heist here. Visit our lovely sponsors here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:05.6	Hey all, Joe here and you are listening to Under the Influence.
1:09.4	Today's episode is yet another reminder that we all
1:13.0	really need to get off our phones and back into real life, particularly real life outside.
1:21.0	Today I'm talking to Dr. John Lapuma about what he is calling the indoor epidemic.
1:27.0	We're spending something like 93% of our lives inside,
1:30.2	under artificial light, breathing recycled air, and glued to screens.
1:35.0	And apparently, it is quietly rewiring our bodies and our brains
1:39.0	in ways we haven't fully reckoned with yet.
1:42.3	And John thinks this is a real problem. An actual epidemic.
1:47.2	Today we're talking about what getting outside actually does for us, that it's like a
1:52.1	prescription better than almost any pills we could take. We get into what it does to our sleep,
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