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"Screen apnea": How our use of tech affects our breathing

Life Kit

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Health & Fitness, Self-improvement, Kids & Family, Education, Business

4.33.9K Ratings

🗓️ 29 June 2024

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Do you have "screen apnea?" Former Microsoft executive Linda Stone coined this term in 2007 after noticing she'd developed an unhealthy habit while answering emails: She held her breath. Body Electric host Manoush Zomorodi talks to Stone about this phenomenon — and gets insight from James Nestor, author of "Breath," on how to reset our breath and relieve screen time stress. Binge the whole Body Electric series here. Sign up for the Body Electric Challenge and their newsletter here.

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0:00.0

Christian nationalists want to turn America into a theocracy, a government under biblical rule.

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If they gain more power, it could mean fewer rights for you.

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I'm Heath Drusen and on the new season of Extremely American

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I'll take you inside the movement. Listen to Extremely American from Boise State Public

0:21.2

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0:24.0

Hey Life Kit listener, this is Manouche Zamor,

0:30.0

host of NPR's Ted Radio Hour, and the new ish podcast, Body Electric.

0:37.4

So this is a series about how our technology is impacting our physical health. And today the Life Kit team invited me to share an

0:47.2

episode that we did about the relationship between our screens and how we breathe.

0:53.8

Because a lot of people don't realize that as they type and scroll,

0:58.0

they hold their breath or take shallow breaths.

1:01.2

But there's actually a pretty easy fix. So please take a listen and if you like

1:05.7

the episode join me over at the body electric feed for more investigations

1:10.2

into how we can live better and healthier with our devices. Enjoy.

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Enjoy.

1:19.0

Hey, it's Manouche.

1:21.0

I have been a journalist covering technology and how it changes us for over a decade.

1:29.1

And a woman named Linda Stone was someone I had read about and would occasionally bump into pretty

1:35.4

much from the beginning. My name is Linda Stone and I worked at Apple for

1:40.4

seven and a half or eight years and I worked at Microsoft for a little over eight years.

1:46.0

Linda has a background in educational psychology.

1:49.0

She did marketing, innovation, and research all those years. But what made her well known in certain nerdy

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