Moment 164: AVOID These 3 Phone Habits That Are Hurting Your Brain! The Mental Health Doctor: Dr Aditi Nerurkar

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Society & Culture, Business, Education

4.6 • 13.2K Ratings

🗓️ 31 May 2024

⏱️ 15 minutes

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In this moment, the world renowned expert in stress, Dr Aditi Nerurkar discusses how the majority of people in the modern world suffer from ‘Popcorn Brain’. According to Dr Aditi ‘Popcorn Brain’ comes from our excessive use of smartphones and social media. This is a real biological phenomenon where your brain circuitry ‘pops’ due to overstimulation and spending too much time online. Your brain never really gets a moment of rest, as being online means it it receives a nonstop stream of information. ‘Popcorn Brain’ is different to the psychological disorder that is internet addiction, as internet addiction seriously affects your ability to live your life, whereas Popcorn Brain defines modern life with everyone being constantly distracted. One of the ways that you can overcome ‘Popcorn Brain’ and improve our mental health is by reducing your reliance on your phone, making sure that you create healthy digital boundaries, so that you give yourself the mental space to live your life. Listen to the full episode here Apple- https://g2ul0.app.link/wSPySPjv1Jb Spotify- https://g2ul0.app.link/neGcOqnv1Jb Watch the Episodes On Youtube - https://www.youtube.com/c/%20TheDiaryOfACEO/videos Dr Aditi Nerurkar - https://www.draditi.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:32.8	If I wanted to be really, really stressed and really, really anxious, right? And I wanted maybe
0:38.3	have thrown some depression. If I wanted stress and anxiety, how should I live?
0:45.6	That's a great question. Get on your phone. Make sure it's on high brightness and scroll through
0:52.4	every social media platform, every news platform, watch graphic
0:56.7	content of videos of horrible, terrible things happening in the world at midnight.
1:02.9	Keep doing that off and on until 4, 5 a.m.
1:09.0	Your cortisol spike usually happens around 6 a.m. Um, you know,
1:13.7	give or take for people, that cortisol spike is a natural thing that happens. It's part of your
1:17.7	circadian rhythm. It's what prompts you to get up out of bed. Um, of course, make sure that you are,
1:24.6	you know, you check your phone right away, right when you get up out of bed
1:28.6	and continue scrolling. This is a really fun exercise of what not to do rather than what to do.
1:38.6	It doesn't always happen, like, it won't be one day because you do have some reserves,
1:43.1	but if you did this for one
1:44.4	month, I would say, instead of like one day.
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