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Bryan Johnson

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This Past Weekend w/ Theo Von
#644 - Bryan Johnson

And the science behind this is when you're engaged in social media, you basically have dopamine dysregulation, right?

This Past Weekend w/ Theo Von
#644 - Bryan Johnson

Like you're in this addiction state and you don't realize it, but it's actually creating all kinds of harm.

This Past Weekend w/ Theo Von
#644 - Bryan Johnson

And then you engage with social media to feel normal again.

This Past Weekend w/ Theo Von
#644 - Bryan Johnson

Now, once you pull out of it,

This Past Weekend w/ Theo Von
#644 - Bryan Johnson

and you have that break, you kind of get, you're out of the spell.

This Past Weekend w/ Theo Von
#644 - Bryan Johnson

You're not hypnotized anymore.

This Past Weekend w/ Theo Von
#644 - Bryan Johnson

And then you get to feel it for what it is.

This Past Weekend w/ Theo Von
#644 - Bryan Johnson

So now when I pull up the feed, it feels toxic.

This Past Weekend w/ Theo Von
#644 - Bryan Johnson

Like it feels like I've had a fast food meal or like I've had, I'm in a secondhand, room of secondhand smoke or like, it just feels so bad.

This Past Weekend w/ Theo Von
#644 - Bryan Johnson

And I guess that I pay attention to these feelings because over the past five years, I've been doing like hundreds of experiments to my body, like what things make my body rejuvenate and what things make my body die.

This Past Weekend w/ Theo Von
#644 - Bryan Johnson

So I have this intuition I've built.

This Past Weekend w/ Theo Von
#644 - Bryan Johnson

And now when I go into social media, it like literally feels like death.

This Past Weekend w/ Theo Von
#644 - Bryan Johnson

And so it's complicated though, because I love social media.

This Past Weekend w/ Theo Von
#644 - Bryan Johnson

But also when I get on, it's like, I'm like, nah, this is not good.

This Past Weekend w/ Theo Von
#644 - Bryan Johnson

So honestly, it's complicated.

This Past Weekend w/ Theo Von
#644 - Bryan Johnson

Like in those moments when you feel sober, it's like you do, you can viscerally feel it.