How Social Media And AI Impacts Our Mental Health: Reclaiming Our Minds And Hearts And Healing A Divided World with Tobias Rose-Stockwell

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Dr. Mark Hyman

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🗓️ 1 November 2023

⏱️ 78 minutes

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This episode is brought to you by Rupa Health, BiOptimizers, Zero Acre, and Pendulum.

The rise of social media has revolutionized the way we connect, share information, and interact with one another. While it has undoubtedly brought numerous benefits, there is growing concern about its impact on our mental health.

Today on The Doctor’s Farmacy, I’m excited to talk to Tobias Rose-Stockwell about how the internet has broken our brains, what we can do to fix it, and how to navigate this complex digital landscape.

Tobias Rose-Stockwell is a writer, designer, and media researcher whose work has been featured in major outlets such as The Atlantic, WIRED, NPR, the BBC, CNN, and many others. His research has been cited in the adoption of key interventions to reduce toxicity and polarization within leading tech platforms. He previously led humanitarian projects in Southeast Asia focused on civil war reconstruction efforts, work for which he was honored with an award from the 14th Dalai Lama. He lives in New York with his cat Waffles.

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Here are more details from our interview (audio version / Apple Subscriber version):

The superpower that social media has provided to us (5:55 / 4:21)
How our traditional knowledge systems have been deconstructed (7:39 / 5:15)
The challenges of uncovering what is true (12:43 / 10:18)
How Tobais’s time in Cambodia led him to this work (15:05 / 12:42)
The harms of social media (26:57 / 22:36)
Historical media disruptions (32:57 / 28:37)
The dangers of misinformation (35:27 / 31:06)
Challenges and opportunities around AI (42:09 / 37:58)
How governments and platforms can reduce the harms of social media (55:10 / 50:59)
Individual actions to improve the impact of social media (1:02:30 / 58:09)

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1:33.8	Magnesium also plays a role in our stress response and everyone I know could use a hand in better managing stress
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