How Phones & Porn Are Quietly Rewiring Your Brain & Body l ft. Dr. Trish Leigh HTS w/ DrG #405
Heal Thy Self with Dr. G
Wellness Loud
5 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 7 August 2025
⏱️ 63 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | One of the worst things you can do is use your device for mood regulation. |
| 0:04.5 | So many people are going on for higher level super normal stimuli. |
| 0:09.7 | They're going on to get bigger hits. |
| 0:11.9 | That's the idea of hypersexualized content or violence or drama. |
| 0:17.2 | If you've been feeling more anxious, depressed, or struggling to focus lately, but you can't |
| 0:22.0 | figure out why this episode might just change everything for you. |
| 0:25.1 | I am here with Dr. Trishley, who is a neuroscientist who's been mapping out thousands of |
| 0:29.4 | brains and discovering something alarming. |
| 0:31.8 | What she calls supernormal stimuli from our devices are literally rewiring our brains in |
| 0:37.4 | real time. And she's going to explain why |
| 0:39.3 | your phone creates the same dopamine spike as cocaine showing up as dysfunctional brain scans. |
| 0:46.2 | Most people don't realize that their daily screen habits are creating anxiety and sleep issues. |
| 0:50.2 | And they're trying to fix it with everything else. But Dr. Lee has the data to prove it. |
| 0:53.9 | And more importantly, she has the solutions. Let's get into this. Dr. Trish, welcome to the show. |
| 1:00.5 | I know that you just had a recent viral interview online and it was really, really catching fire. |
| 1:08.3 | Someone sent it to me and I said, oh, we need her on the show ASAP. and I'm so happy to be here with you. Yeah, thanks. I'm glad to be here too. Important conversations to be had. Oh, if they knew what we were talking about off there. Okay, so ready, I have some rapid fire questions. Let's get right into it so people can get a little teaser about what we're going to be talking about. |
| 1:30.9 | A term I never heard, you mentioned it, supernormal stimuli. |
| 1:33.5 | What is that and how is it affecting our brains? |
| 1:33.9 | Sure. |
| 1:43.5 | Supernormal stimuli are, they're basically digitally based these days, and they provide excessive dopamine to the brain. So they hook you on them. |
| 1:45.8 | And then the way dopamine works, it's the molecule of more motivation and pleasure. |
| 1:50.2 | It keeps you going back for more and it's insatiable. |
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