Your Brain on Screens: Myths and Facts & How Your Body Keeps You Alive

Something You Should Know

Mike Carruthers | OmniCastMedia

Science, Social Sciences, Self-improvement, Education, Health & Fitness

4.6 • 4K Ratings

🗓️ 24 April 2025

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

You are familiar with the advice that you shouldn’t go grocery shopping when you are hungry because you will spend more money and buy more junk. However, that’s just a piece of story. Hunger and shopping are related in other ways. This episode begins by explaining how. https://phys.org/news/2015-03-hungry-people-food.html#google_vignette The idea that spending too much time on your phone, tablet or computer is bad for you has become conventional wisdom. But is that true? What does the research say about this? It turns out it's not black and white, there are shades of gray worth understanding. Here to explain this is Jacqueline Nesi. She is a psychologist and assistant professor at Brown University who writes the popular weekly newsletter Techno Sapiens (https://technosapiens.substack.com), which provides tips to manage your screen time better. She has published over 50 peer-reviewed publications related to technology use and has appeared on CNBC, CNN, and NPR. Your body is an amazing collection of processes and systems that all work to keep you alive and moving. Most of us have no idea what goes on inside of us to make it all happen so, here to explain some of it and unravel a few mysteries of the human body and explain why we can’t live forever, how the body defends itself, why we need to sleep and so much and more is Dr. Darragh Ennis. He is a scientist and researcher who has worked at the University of Oxford and the University of Glasgow and he is author of the book The Body: 10 Things You Should Know (https://amzn.to/42ApkC5). Have you heard the word “halfalogue? It’s when you hear someone else talking on their phone but you are hearing only their side of the conversation. It can drive you crazy and it has other implications, especially if you are driving a car. Listen as I explain. https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2010/05/half-heard-phone-conversations-reduce-performance PLEASE SUPPORT OUR SPONSORS!!! FACTOR: Eat smart with Factor! Get 50% off at https://FactorMeals.com/something50off TIMELINE: Get 10% off your order of Mitopure! Go to https://Timeline.com/SOMETHING INDEED: Get a $75 sponsored job credit to get your jobs more visibility at https://Indeed.com/SOMETHING right now! SHOPIFY: Nobody does selling better than Shopify! Sign up for a $1 per-month trial period at https://Shopify.com/sysk and upgrade your selling today! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:29.6	Today on something you should know, how hunger affects what you buy. not just groceries, everything you buy.
0:39.3	Then some facts and myths about screen time and video games.
0:43.3	You know, there was a big concern for a while about violence in video games.
0:47.3	Generally, the research does not support any long-term links between playing violent video games and violent or aggressive
0:57.0	outcomes in the long term.
0:59.0	Also, while listening to other people talk on their phones can drive you nuts.
1:05.0	And the amazing ways your body works, your heart, your immune system, your brain. Your brain washes itself at night time.
1:13.2	There's been studies where they've watched people when they're going to sleep and they've seen
1:16.6	pulses of cerebrospinal fluid going over the brain during sleep. They really think that this maintenance
1:22.1	time of sleep helps remove bad things for your brain, toxin build up. All this today on Something You Should Know.
1:30.8	We talk quite a bit about health on this podcast, and I can tell you I try to take care
1:36.2	of myself.
1:37.2	I mean, I work at it.
1:38.6	And for a while now, I've been taking this supplement called mitopure.
1:42.9	And I can tell you, I feel stronger.
1:45.3	When I exercise, I recover faster.
1:48.1	What mitopure is is a precise dose of something called urolithin A.
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