One of my colleagues spent 47 hours on his phone last week. I think a better method is the same intermittent fasting method that you described for your food consumption. Instead of setting limits on this or that app, we consolidate our screen time to discrete hours of the day. But outside of those hours, we don't engage with the screen at all. And it's really tough to do. But I think it works better.
In “Dopamine Nation: Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence,” Dr. Anna Lembke says today’s superabundance of pleasurable stimuli makes us all vulnerable to overindulgence. But don’t lose hope. Anna, the medical director of addiction medicine at Stanford, says that by understanding how modern stimulants — from Instagram to masturbation machines — prey on our primitive brains, we can find ways to overcome the unhealthy dependencies that prevent us from leading balanced lives.
(This episode originally aired in December 2021.)
Host: Rufus Griscom
Guest: Anna Lembke
Executive Producer: Caleb Bissinger
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