Dr. Alok Kanojia

It becomes harder to like, you know, you become more irritable, you become more cranky. It's like if someone tells you to not use your phone, you'll get like cranky around that. So you like literally become more receptive to like dopaminergic activity. So instead, what we really want to do is focus on boosting our serotonin system.

So this is why we're seeing an unprecedented level of addiction in the world today. But we're also seeing an unprecedented level of hunger for meditation and mindfulness. And why is that? What do these do in our brain? So we know that, for example, meditation is an evidence based intervention that improves things like depression and anxiety.

So this is why we're seeing an unprecedented level of addiction in the world today. But we're also seeing an unprecedented level of hunger for meditation and mindfulness. And why is that? What do these do in our brain? So we know that, for example, meditation is an evidence based intervention that improves things like depression and anxiety.

So this is why we're seeing an unprecedented level of addiction in the world today. But we're also seeing an unprecedented level of hunger for meditation and mindfulness. And why is that? What do these do in our brain? So we know that, for example, meditation is an evidence based intervention that improves things like depression and anxiety.

And the primary medications that we use to treat those are actually serotonin based medications. So meditation probably boosts our serotonin transmission in the brain. But I would say that there are also like different kinds of like mindset kind of shifts that we can do. If you kind of think about, you know, what results in serotonin boosts, it's usually things that matter to us that are painful.

And the primary medications that we use to treat those are actually serotonin based medications. So meditation probably boosts our serotonin transmission in the brain. But I would say that there are also like different kinds of like mindset kind of shifts that we can do. If you kind of think about, you know, what results in serotonin boosts, it's usually things that matter to us that are painful.

And the primary medications that we use to treat those are actually serotonin based medications. So meditation probably boosts our serotonin transmission in the brain. But I would say that there are also like different kinds of like mindset kind of shifts that we can do. If you kind of think about, you know, what results in serotonin boosts, it's usually things that matter to us that are painful.

So when I think about like, you know, when I stay up all night taking care of my sick kid, that's not pleasurable. It sucks. But the next morning, I feel really good about it. Even if I feel physically awful, I'm cranky, I'm not happy, I didn't get any sleep. I feel good about it because like I did my job as a dad, right? My kid is struggling and I'm there to help them.

So when I think about like, you know, when I stay up all night taking care of my sick kid, that's not pleasurable. It sucks. But the next morning, I feel really good about it. Even if I feel physically awful, I'm cranky, I'm not happy, I didn't get any sleep. I feel good about it because like I did my job as a dad, right? My kid is struggling and I'm there to help them.

So when I think about like, you know, when I stay up all night taking care of my sick kid, that's not pleasurable. It sucks. But the next morning, I feel really good about it. Even if I feel physically awful, I'm cranky, I'm not happy, I didn't get any sleep. I feel good about it because like I did my job as a dad, right? My kid is struggling and I'm there to help them.

And that like feels really good. So the serotonergic system is a system that activates when we feel accomplished, right? The problem in society today is that we don't focus. We don't actually it's not that we don't focus on accomplishment. We want accomplishment. But literally, how do you spend your day? You spend your day not thriving for accomplishment.

And that like feels really good. So the serotonergic system is a system that activates when we feel accomplished, right? The problem in society today is that we don't focus. We don't actually it's not that we don't focus on accomplishment. We want accomplishment. But literally, how do you spend your day? You spend your day not thriving for accomplishment.

And that like feels really good. So the serotonergic system is a system that activates when we feel accomplished, right? The problem in society today is that we don't focus. We don't actually it's not that we don't focus on accomplishment. We want accomplishment. But literally, how do you spend your day? You spend your day not thriving for accomplishment.

You want to accomplish things, but you spend your day like wasting time on technological devices. And every time you spend time on that technological device, it's amplifying your dopamine system and reducing your serotonin system.

You want to accomplish things, but you spend your day like wasting time on technological devices. And every time you spend time on that technological device, it's amplifying your dopamine system and reducing your serotonin system.

You want to accomplish things, but you spend your day like wasting time on technological devices. And every time you spend time on that technological device, it's amplifying your dopamine system and reducing your serotonin system.

Stay the hell away from technology for as long as you can. So generally speaking, I will strongly recommend that people don't use a technological device for the first hour after waking up. Practically, this is very difficult because of a couple of things. One is that we no longer have magazines and bathrooms because we take our phones.

Stay the hell away from technology for as long as you can. So generally speaking, I will strongly recommend that people don't use a technological device for the first hour after waking up. Practically, this is very difficult because of a couple of things. One is that we no longer have magazines and bathrooms because we take our phones.

Stay the hell away from technology for as long as you can. So generally speaking, I will strongly recommend that people don't use a technological device for the first hour after waking up. Practically, this is very difficult because of a couple of things. One is that we no longer have magazines and bathrooms because we take our phones.

So it's really hard to go to the bathroom in the morning without your phone. So there are a couple of like really specific behaviors that you have to target and give up. And oftentimes when I work with people who have technology problems, the hardest tech use to give up when we're not like so addicted that it's ruining our lives is actually the technology use in between things.