Season Six: A Personal Journey for Sanjay

Chasing Life

CNN

Nutrition, Health & Fitness, Mental Health

4.5 • 8K Ratings

🗓️ 7 February 2023

⏱️ 3 minutes

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Summary

If you’re reading this, you’re probably looking at a phone or a computer screen. These days we spend most of our lives looking at screens – whether it’s for work, school, or fun – but how is it shaping us? On season six of Chasing Life, Dr. Sanjay Gupta takes us on his most personal journey yet, while he dives into the science behind how technology is impacting our brains. As a dad of three teenage girls, he explores how worried we should be about the effect screen time is having on kids’ health. Join us each Tuesday as we bring everyone to the table – from members of the Gupta family to content creators and medical professionals – and look for guidance on how to navigate a world surrounded by screens. To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	So have you ever been down here before? What do you think of my podcast, did you?
0:06.0	It's kind of creepy.
0:09.0	The season on Chasing Life, I sit down with some of the most intimidating guests I have ever interviewed.
0:16.0	This is my question, I have a question now.
0:18.0	Oh, my podcast.
0:20.0	I'll allow it.
0:22.0	My three teenage daughters.
0:25.0	Are you surprised that I don't really get it?
0:27.0	No.
0:28.0	No, yes or no, no.
0:30.0	No, I'm not surprised.
0:32.0	Sharing these conversations with all of you makes me feel honestly kind of vulnerable.
0:38.0	But in this case, I realized they are the experts.
0:44.0	When I have kids of my own, if I don't think I want to let them be on social media as early as I was,
0:55.0	I think that there's a right time of the right maturity to start using social media and technology.
1:04.0	My daughters are digital natives.
1:06.0	They were born into a world surrounded by screens.
1:11.0	Social media use, at this point, is not really avoidable.
1:15.0	Like everyone's on it.
1:16.0	And like, if you're not on it, you're really like isolated.
1:20.0	And I wanted to hear from the people who use these technologies the most.
1:25.0	Young people.
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