Social Media and our Brains with CNN’s Chasing Life
The Happiness Lab with Dr. Laurie Santos
Pushkin Industries
4.7 • 14.8K Ratings
🗓️ 12 May 2022
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
“Is social media bad for our brains?” asks Dr. Sanjay Gupta of CNN’s Chasing Life. Dr. Gupta, CNN’s Chief Medical Correspondent talks about social media and how, while it can be a place for community and entertainment, it can also be harmful for our mental health. He speaks to social media researcher Prof. Dar Meshi about what social media is doing to our brains, and why we need to set healthy boundaries around our social media use.
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| 0:00.0 | Pushkin |
| 0:07.0 | Hey, Happiness Lab listeners! |
| 0:11.2 | While we're hard at work on some new episodes, I wanted to share an episode of CNN's podcast |
| 0:16.6 | Chasing Life, hosted by Dr. Sanjay Gupta. |
| 0:20.3 | In this episode, Dr. Gupta speaks to a social media researcher about how platforms like |
| 0:24.9 | Twitter, Instagram, and TikTok have become central to our lives and how that's affected |
| 0:29.9 | our brains. |
| 0:30.9 | Here about why we need to set some healthy boundaries around social media use and how |
| 0:35.4 | we can protect our mental health by finally putting an end to doom scrolling. |
| 0:40.0 | I hope you liked this episode of Chasing Life. |
| 0:42.4 | You can find more episodes of Chasing Life wherever you get your podcasts. |
| 0:46.0 | I hope you enjoy the episode. |
| 0:48.0 | You guys threw that popcorn pop and listen. |
| 1:01.9 | That's Instagram influencers Sophia Roe. |
| 1:04.9 | She's a chef. |
| 1:05.9 | She's also a host of the Vice TV show Counter Space. |
| 1:07.9 | Over the years, she's built a career on being candid and funny through her Instagram videos. |
| 1:11.9 | I'm just a person on Instagram that likes to chat and cook mushrooms and bake. |
| 1:18.2 | I think that for me, my community is so great because I have started my Instagram being |
| 1:23.4 | myself and have continued to be myself. |
| 1:26.4 | But if you're on the internet today, you know that it's not always a safe place to be. |
| 1:31.4 | And for Sophia, a black woman, it's been pretty rough at some points. |
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