Peter Attia, M.D.

I mean, there's certainly no shortage of discussion about what happens when kids are all the anxiety and things that come from endless social media.

But this is kind of a deeper and more interesting question, which is what does it teach us about aggression or lack thereof?

And I'm curious, have people been studying that as closely as they've been studying the effects of social media on anxiety and some of these other things?

Yeah, yeah.

Your knee-jerk reaction is to always eat something that's sweeter, more calorie-dense.

On average.

Now, given that we evolved for the males to get this aggression out physically, what do we say about boys that play a ton of video games and get their aggression out there?

So you could argue, well, they're playing with their other friends.

I don't know enough about video games, so I'm going to embarrass myself, but I'm sure there are super aggressive video games where you're killing each other and doing something in a virtual world that you would do if you were wrestling.

Is there a positive to that?

Aside from the fact that they're not getting exercise, of course, and not being physically active, do we know if that serves as even a reasonable proxy?

So if a parent is listening to this, is there anything that they should be concerned about?

In other words, we know that all siblings are a little bit different.

So even my two boys are different.

So they're clearly both a step function more aggressive and physical than their sister was at a comparable age.

but they're quite different themselves.

The younger one is still a step ahead in aggression of the middle one, meaning the younger boy is more aggressive than the older boy.

So there's three years between them.

And obviously the older one is larger.

The younger one will instigate physically more.