Dr. Ben Rein

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The Liz Moody Podcast · Stanford Neuroscientist: THIS Is The Secret To Living Longer (It's Not Diet Or Exercise) · 10 Jun 2026 podcast

Like this turbulent roller coaster for the brain.

I don't know what the net effect of that.

I mean, for anybody, neuroscientists, anyone, psychologists to point and be like, this is the net effect.

You know, this is how it impacts our brains would be wrong because it's like you're taking the entire world and compacting it into a screen and just experiencing it in this very passive way

strange way.

The studies are clear that it's not good for us.

Are there moments where it is good for us?

Probably.

Probably those moments of seeing your friend's story are those moments.

I mean, I know that there's a bunch of social media platforms that are kind of popping up that are kind of like that, where it's like, let's just take the friend part and just focus on that so that this is actually pleasant.

But like, they don't take off because they're not as

For that person, like that specific archetype, I would say do a like two week social media break.

It's a habit, right?

It's kind of an addiction.

Let your brain kind of reset.

The other thing that I just want to point out, there are real studies showing that when someone is isolated, the same kind of thing happens where they don't experience as much joy and reward from socializing.

So not only do they not feel as good when they socialize, but there's also studies literally showing that like they don't show as great of a rise in oxytocin.

And so when you've been isolated for a while, which might be happening at the same time as you're scrolling your phone a lot, you might not feel quite as good in social settings and you kind of have to like ease back into it.

But that actually may be the solution.

Because if you think about what happened after COVID, like I remember when it was like, okay, kind of back to normal life.

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