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The Dr. John Delony Show

The Scary Truth of How Screens Are Rotting Our Brains (With Carlos Whittaker)

The Dr. John Delony Show

Ramsey Network

Society & Culture, Health & Fitness, Mental Health, Relationships

4.85.9K Ratings

🗓️ 31 January 2025

⏱️ 70 minutes

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0:00.0

My cerebellum healed years in a period of seven weeks.

0:10.1

When I did not look at a screen, my memory went from the 50th percentile of adult men in America

0:15.7

to the 99th percentile.

0:18.2

There was only 1% of men with better memory than me when I finished this experiment.

0:29.2

What's going on? What's going on? This is John with the Dr. John Deloney show. I hope you are doing so great.

0:37.4

Hey, on today's show, we have a special episode.

0:40.2

All things, social media screens, the internet's, all of it.

0:45.0

If you're like me, you know that this, and you're reading, you read Jonathan Hyatt's book, The Anxious Generation generation you are paying attention to what's out in the

0:54.6

world with the ticot bands and the social media stuff and the insane rise of mental health challenges

1:00.7

especially with young teen girls but i think it's actually even being boys too it just manifests itself

1:04.7

differently everybody's concerned about it social media and they've gamified human connection.

1:11.5

It is hard to get off.

1:12.7

It's hard to even, like, it's just the whole thing's chaotic.

1:16.0

And if you pull your kids off of it, then they're crying in their bedrooms that they're missing out on friendships and birthday party.

1:21.7

It's just the whole thing's a mess.

1:24.4

So I've got a buddy here in Nashville.

1:27.2

His name's Carlos Whitaker. carlos wrote a book um he is

1:30.8

an author and a speaker he's here in nashville tennessee and i invited him we went and had

1:36.2

lunch and i was like man you need to come on the show and i want to talk about your new book but more

1:40.5

important i want to talk about your experience as you unwound this thing and this is one of

1:46.5

the most important conversations i think i've had on this show and i hope you will not just scroll past it

1:53.2

because this isn't us talking about the science you can talk you can hear about the neuroscience of social

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