I'm Aisha Roscoe and you're listening to The Sunday Story from Up First.

Now, I'm guessing that a lot of you listening are like me.

You spend a lot of time searching, scrolling, and tapping on your devices.

And a lot of times you're sitting kind of like a little shrimp, you're hunched over,

your screen with your shoulders all up around your ears.

By the end of the day, you feel stiff, your neck hurts, your eyes burn, your mind is foggy.

You feel like you need to touch grass.

At least that's how I'm feeling. But maybe not after

today, because today I'm talking with someone who's going to pitch me on a challenge. The point is

to feel good in your body, Ayesha, to reconnect your body to your brain, to feel like a human who is in the world,

not just like a brain popped on top of a bag of flesh.

You might recognize that as the voice of Manusza Marotti.

She hosts the TED Radio Hour, and we've had her on the Sunday story before to talk about

how technology has shaped us. We all feel awful at the end of a long day sitting attached to our

devices. But why? What exactly is happening to us physically when we use our technology? And what can we

do about it? Since we last spoke,

Manusch has spent three years combing through the results of a massive study with thousands

of NPR listeners and partnership with Columbia University Medical Center. And the results are at

the heart of her new book, Body Electric, the hidden health cost of the digital

age and new science to reclaim your well-being. Today, she's back to explain how we can reclaim

our humanity in a world that's designed to keep us sitting and glued to our screens.

We're talking about like some pretty fun, positive ways

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