The Easy, Simple Fix for Exhaustion, Foggy Brain, and Back Pain | Manoush Zomorodi
10% Happier with Dan Harris
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4.6 • 12.9K Ratings
🗓️ 6 May 2026
⏱️ 76 minutes
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Summary
Manoush Zomorodi is an award-winning journalist, bestselling author, and host of NPR's "TED Radio Hour," where she explores fascinating ideas with the world's greatest thinkers. She is the author of a new book called BODY ELECTRIC: The Hidden Health Costs of the Digital Age and New Science to Reclaim Your Well-Being. You can also subscribe to her newsletter, Manoush Minutes.
In this episode we talk about:
- What constant screen time is doing to your brain and body
- Why feeling tired all the time might not be what you think
- A simple shift that could boost your energy and focus
- The hidden ways tech is messing with your physical health
- What you're missing when you ignore your body's signals
- Why more productivity hacks might actually backfire
- Small changes that could make a big difference in how you feel
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | This is the 10% Happier Podcast. I'm Dan Harris. |
| 0:18.5 | Hello, everybody. How we doing? Here is a question for you. Do you ever feel like shit? Foggy, fatigued, distracted, exhausted, burned out? If so, this episode is for you. It turns out there is a reasonably simple fix that could make a massive difference. Side note, since we did this interview, I've been |
| 0:40.0 | trying to inject this fix into my daily life, and it has made a big difference for me. |
| 0:45.4 | My guest is Manusse Zamoroti, who's the host of NPR's TED Radio Hour and the author of a new |
| 0:51.1 | book called Body Electric, in which she describes a gigantic problem for our society and for all of us as individuals. |
| 1:00.7 | It's that our relationship to technology is having really deleterious impacts on our health. |
| 1:07.1 | For years, we've known about the impacts on our mental health, but minutia is now focusing |
| 1:11.9 | specifically on the impact on our physical health. |
| 1:16.5 | Screens are leading to chronic headaches, back pain, diminished sleep, and rising rates |
| 1:22.2 | of preventable diseases like type 2 diabetes. |
| 1:26.2 | In other words, our devices are affecting our eyes, our lungs, |
| 1:29.0 | our posture, and our whole nervous system. It's a real problem, but there are real solutions, |
| 1:34.4 | and that's why I'm so excited about this conversation, which is coming up in just a minute. |
| 1:39.2 | First, I just want to say it is very hard to have energy if you have not had enough sleep, |
| 1:46.0 | which is why over on the 10% app, we're now going really big on sleep. Next week, we're adding 10 new sleep meditations, |
| 1:52.6 | and we're going to do a live video session with our teacher of the month, Carl Lai, who's going to |
| 1:56.8 | talk about how to best use meditation to help you sleep. You can sign up for the app |
| 2:02.3 | by heading on over to danharris.com. There's a free 14-day trial if you want to try it before you |
| 2:07.9 | buy. Also quickly want to say that if you want to meditate with me in person, I've got an event |
| 2:12.6 | coming up at the 92nd Street Y on May 17th. There's a link in the show notes if you want to get tickets. |
| 2:19.6 | All right. We'll get started with Manus Shumoroti right after this. |
| 2:23.6 | One of the things we're doing in the larger 10% happier cinematic universe is we are yet again |
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