Brian Lair, on WNYC, joining us now is Manu Samarodi.

You may know her in her role as host of NPR's TED Radio Hour, or her books, Bored and Brilliant and Spark. And maybe some of you

might remember that not too long ago, Manus was working right here in the WNYC Newsroom. Well, since she's

joined the NPR Mothership, she's become a leading expert in how technology changes us as people.

Mostly, we all talk about tech's impact on our brains these days, right?

And we will now, too.

But Mnuch's new book focuses on technology's impact on our bodies,

and it includes this massive experiment she undertook with like 20,000 NPR listeners

and advice for us all that came out of it. Let's check it out.

Manus Amroti's new book is called Body Electric, the hidden health costs of the digital age

and the new science to reclaim your well-being. And she joins us now. Hey, Manusch, welcome back to WNYC.

Oh, hi, Brian. It's so nice to be back. Great to hear your

voice. And you use the phrase, the mind-body tech connection. We're going to open up the phones,

listeners, for your stories and questions about this. But let's set some of the basics. The mind-body-tech

connection to describe your beat.

And it's the intersection of how our devices are reshaping us physically, not just psychologically.

Can you explain what you mean by that?

Yes, and I will start with a very personal example.

So I was feeling like I would spend all day working on my laptop, checking my phone, all the rest of it,

and I would close my laptop at the end of the day and feel like I had just enough energy

left to kind of crawl across the floor, Brian, onto my couch, to scroll on my phone,

maybe watch some Netflix, but that was kind of it. There was this sense of feeling

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