How Your Phone Is Aging Your Brain! #358

Heal Thy Self with Dr. G

Heal Thy Self

Health & Fitness, Alternative Health

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🗓️ 24 February 2025

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

Is social media hijacking your brain? In this video, we break down how constant phone usage and social media exposure rewire your brain, affect your dopamine levels, and impact your mental and physical health. Learn how to regain control with dopamine fasting, digital detox strategies, and practical tips to reset your brain for focus, balance, and overall well-being. #phone #socialmedia #mentalhealth ==== Thank You To Our Sponsors! BON CHARGE Go to https://boncharge.com/products/red-light-face and use code DRG for 15% off storewide ==== Sign Up For Our Newsletter: https://drchristiangonzalez.com/newsletter Show Notes: Introduction: The Impact of Phone Usage Prioritizing Dopamine Fasting and Digital Detox Setting Time Limits on Social Media Understanding How Phones Rewire the Brain Regaining Autonomy of Your Brain The Striatum and Habit Formation Dopamine Receptors and Social Media Use How Social Media Platforms Hack Your Focus Social Media as a Toxin Constant Social Media Exposure and Fight or Flight Melatonin Suppression Rewiring and Regaining Balance Setting Time Limits and Restoring Balance The Importance of Blue Light Blockers Increasing Real Life Oxytocin The Benefits of Sunlight Brain Reset Challenge Final Thoughts and Gratitude Be sure to like and subscribe to #HealThySelf Hosted by Doctor Christian Gonzalez N.D. Follow Doctor G on Instagram @doctor.gonzalez https://www.instagram.com/doctor.gonzalez/

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0:00.0	Have you ever put your phone down and go, okay, it's time to work, but you found it really hard to
0:04.0	stay engaged, especially getting into deep work? And 10 minutes into it, 15 minutes into it,
0:08.5	you're picking up your phone and you're back on social media and then you put it back down and
0:11.5	you go, I got to get back to work. I know that you've gone through this. Well, we know that
0:14.9	chronic social media use reduces prefrontal cortex activity. So we're not able to have those checkpoints and regulate.
0:21.3	And actually, this is the same exact mechanism that is observed in substance abuse and addiction.
0:28.4	So the same feeling you get to get back to your phone and away from your work is the same feeling addicts get when they need to use.
0:36.2	We want to reduce dopamine overstimulation.
0:38.9	This is by avoiding these high reward content threats. The TikToks or Twitters, the Instagram
0:45.6	reels, the likes, the lighting up. We want to avoid that. And we want to replace scrolling
0:51.4	with things that actually provide us value and give us healthy
0:56.8	dopamine levels like deep work, journaling.
1:00.5	This is what I've been doing, creative hobbies.
1:03.2	Implementing a dopamine detox, a 24-hour break from any digital stimulation is a must. So if you're using social media for more than two hours a day,
1:14.5	make sure you're locking yourself out so you're not going up to three, four, five, six,
1:19.1	eight hours a day. Thank you for joining this episode of Heal Thyself. To support the show, please rate, review, and subscribe.
1:30.2	It gives us the opportunity to really expand this knowledge to people who need it most, and you can do your part by just sharing the love.
1:37.2	Again, thank you for listening. I'm forever grateful, and I love you all. Let's get started.
1:41.7	All right, everyone, welcome to Heal Thyself. Today, I'm going to talk
1:45.1	about something that is affecting all of us. If you have a phone and you've been using it for a long
1:51.1	time, you may not know how it's rewiring your brain. But we don't understand yet the implications
1:56.9	of how it's affecting the rest of our lives. But if you use a phone, this should be the number
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