Hello, I'm Dr. Stephen Hassan with another episode of the influence continuum.

And I'm very grateful to have a distinguished psychiatrist, a scientist, entrepreneur,

and author of a book that I love, Dr. Carl DeMarcy, called ReWired, Protecting Your Brain in the Digital Age.

And Dr. Marcy, I first read about you in the Boston Globe, and I said, how come I don't know this man?

Oh, he's at Harvard. And I reached out to you, and you kindly consented to this.

This interview, I just want to say you're currently the chief psychiatrist,

managing director of mental health and neuroscience at OM1,

a health technology and data company based in Boston,

your board certified psychiatrist at Massachusetts General Hospital, part-time, assistant professor

of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, where you also did your MD with honors. Your Rhodes Scholar,

I could go on and on with your credentials, but wow, you are a psychiatrist and a social neuroscientist.

And I must say, I first listened to your book on Audible, and I said, I need to get a

copy because I really want to read this over and over again, because it's so central to what

I think is a critical issue around

the world today. So what I'd like to do, if I may, Dr. Marcy, is just ask you a question and just

start this way. Your book is filled with science. It's peer reviewed by Harvard Press.

You emphasize the importance of social bonding for all of our well-being.

You rightly point out that our social connections are undergoing a massive metamorphosis,

thanks to burgeoning social media.

And indeed, we live in an age of large,

superficial online social networks that drain our time and attention. So you talk about the importance of social bonding, you talk about how we need to be wired for maximum health and then how we're getting

rewired by the digital circumstances. And I love your chapter 9 where you give practical

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