The Health & Wellness Show: The Smarter Your Phone, The Dumber Your Brain

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Fri, 05 Jan 2018 16:00 UTC

There are estimated to be over 200 million smartphone addicts worldwide and 46% of Americans say that they can't live without their smartphones. Mobile phones were initially an adjunct to the home phone, useful for emergencies while out on the road, but have morphed into an ever-present source of addiction for children and adults alike. Users check their phones up to 85 times a day, interact more with their phones than they do with other people and live in a state of continuous distraction. Warnings of the dangers of smartphone overuse have fallen on deaf ears as the technology has invaded every aspect of life. Researchers are finding that as we become more dependent on smartphone apps our cognitive capacities weaken considerably and we are left dumbed down, moody and distanced from reality.

Join us on this episode of The Health and Wellness Show where we discuss the dumbness of smartphones (and their owners) and if society can ever turn back after Pandora's smartphone has been unboxed.

Also stay tuned for Zoya's Pet Health Segment where she discusses the use of a common cooking spice as a solution for dog's itching.

Running Time: 01:20:05

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Reader Comments

Extremely Woolly · 2018-01-05T19:28:09Z

Likely that the microwave longitudinal wave component (the scalar wave produced by the near field effect of any transmitter used in RFID for power transmission) will combine and modulate the longitudinal part of the light wave coming from the screen. Hence there is a resonant frequency near water(~2.45 GHz) which will directly enter the brain and alter the Qi life force waves that resonant with the stem cells, frequency mismatch/disharmony could lead to alzheimers because of malformed cell production under misdirection due to de-coherence. (Add to this the normal microwave effect entering through the skull shaking/burning the stem cells and making them twist and fold). So there are at least 2 angles of attack.

Artex · 2018-01-05T21:31:14Z

Extremely Woolly You're thinking way too hard about this. People are addicted to social media. I was. I was addicted to finding something to be indignantly enraged about. Then I would constantly check for responses. This is due to the evolution of social media and the evolution of the use of social media, and its ubiquity. When I joined facebook, I barely used it. Then I used it every day. Then I was checking multiple times an hour. Now I barely use it again, having realized the addiction and psychosis that developed along the way.

Also, watching television late, staring at your computer screen, phone, etc., exposes you to blue light wavelengths that interrupt your circadian rhythm (as they are the same as the midday sun). You don't need a conspiracy for everything. Some things can be identified with simple observation and reflection.

As far as Alzheimer's goes, this is likely due to the chemicals we've been spraying on our food for generations. And this isn't just me making a supposition. A close friend who is a university researcher has handed us copies of his research in case he gets suicided, as his research points the finger directly at Roundup® and other organo-phosphate fertilizers and pesticides. This was not the result he expected from his research. What his team has discovered and is working to confirm (and have peer reviewed) links Roundup® to Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, and the autism spectrum.

Highland Fleet Lute · 2018-01-06T09:21:47Z

"The addiction and psychosis that developed along the way."

The most terrifying thing about smart phone zombies is: they don't even know they're zombies.

prehistoric · 2018-01-06T12:22:00Z

Highland Fleet Lute They have apps for that /lol/

Highland Fleet Lute · 2018-01-06T13:39:34Z

I started listening to the show, only to find out that it was hosted by a bunch smart phone users. What's the point in that?

Every smart phone owner is a smart phone zombie, except you ? What, do you have a lucky rabbit's foot or something?

See previous comment.

Highland Fleet Lute · 2018-01-06T15:32:47Z

Extremely Woolly said...

"Likely that the microwave longitudinal wave component (the scalar wave produced by the near field effect of any transmitter used in RFID for power transmission) will combine and modulate the longitudinal part of the light wave coming from the screen. Hence there is a resonant frequency near water(~2.45 GHz) which will directly enter the brain and alter the Qi life force waves that resonant with the stem cells, frequency mismatch/disharmony could lead to alzheimers because of malformed cell production under misdirection due to de-coherence. (Add to this the normal microwave effect entering through the skull shaking/burning the stem cells and making them twist and fold)."

Not-in-so-many-words, but I've been wasting my breath in Churchill-in-the-wilderness-fashion warning these wrapped-tied-and-tangled frequency fence zombie f*ckers, some-of-whom-are-actually-under-the-illusion-they're-awake, this kind of thing since the fricking MID-NINETIES. If you own one of these things all you are doing is entraining your mind/body/spirit complex to a bunch of badass frequencies which will be the silver platter you'll be served up as a Tastee-Fry snack to whomever come 4D Day.

Bezel Bub · 2018-01-06T15:49:42Z

Some of my best friends are zombies...

BlackCartouche · 2018-01-06T16:10:03Z

These smart phones are in-built with the ability to detect when young pubescent girls are 'due-on' once an app is activated via snap-chat...

Very insidious.

Highland Fleet Lute · 2018-01-06T17:05:46Z

"Some of my best friends are zombies..."

Smart phone zombies are like wildebeest. "They don't know they're wildebeest"...[Link]

Extremely Woolly · 2018-01-06T18:20:38Z

"Some of my best friends are zombies..."

Smart phone zombies are like wildebeest. "They don't know they're wildebeest"...[Link]

Them lab guys rarely look at proteins in 3-d, as soon as I heard about misfolded proteins in the brain I realised this is part of the oversight with medicine and can be caused by microwave radiation, none ionizing is not an argument for it not being dangerous as not all the wave equation is considered. If you like maths, there is an extended Maxwell wave equation that incorporates the longitudinal wave part which hillariously was made equal to zero by Maxwell to make the sums easier, Laplace earlier had incorporated it, and Tesla had already proved the existance of these longitudinal scalar waves as part of his lossless power transmission over 42 miles. (There is also a divide by zero by Einstein, look on the thunderbolts channel for Stephen Crowthers, who is a very smart mathematician, he takes apart the General relativity theory piece by piece, you will follow some of it).

Bezel Bub · 2018-01-06T18:28:07Z

I do not think my smart phone is all that smart...the other day I asked Siri what I should do if I had a Badger trapped in my pants, and she merely gave me links to places where I could buy new pants, without giving me any input on removing a carnivoran mammal from my drawers, and no advice on preventing future occurrences...

LindaMay · 2018-01-06T19:06:44Z

I m doubled-up and tearing BB.... i can barely breath lolollll. NUTS!!

Bezel Bub · 2018-01-06T19:22:50Z

LindaMay True story...

Ben · 2018-01-06T18:49:39Z

From my perspective as a very busy person, it would be impractical for me to regularly spend any amount of time staying informed/learning anything new, without a smart phone. I realize that I most probably would be happier and healthier without it but I would absolutely be more ignorant.

Highland Fleet Lute · 2018-01-06T19:02:32Z

Ben More ignorant? From the interior of Skullphone Discoteca, that's what smart phone zombies always say...[Link]
Those of us on the exterior know different.

BlackCartouche · 2018-01-06T19:09:54Z

Ben Really?? Every person I know with a smart-phone have heads filled with shit! (including members of my own family I'm sorry to have to say...)

Ben ·

See ... more informed.

· 2018-01-06T19:19:08Z

Heosphorus · 2018-01-06T22:39:34Z

Ben I wonder...if you look at your day...would you find a moment to sit down at a computer and spend a half hour to stay current and informed? If I need to investigate or research a comment or new piece of information, I can't imagine doing so on a smartphone. Far too laborious. I believe giving and receiving information without mindfulness an exercise in futility, and smartphones concern me because the entire premise of smartphones and social media involves short sound bites and, usually, hyper-emotional outbursts. Don't numbers count on these social media platforms? Who's hot and who's not? The encouragement is out-of-focus emotionalism. Distraction. Diversion. Look up some of the current studies on distraction and how much information is retained. Not much. Many times, complete misinterpretation ensues. Just a thought.

Ben · 2018-01-07T02:51:50Z

The short answer to your question without burdening you with the details is no,desktop time is sparse and inconsistent, although the situation you describe sounds idealic and serine. Now I can only speak for myself but I find that I can read articles, even whole books one or two chapters at a time during periods at work where there's little else to do but sit and wait. I have actually found that reading in intervals helps me process information more fully.(Research can get a little tedious). I agree with what you say regarding the overall effect these devices have on the people who are highly involved/integrated with social media apps ect. and the level of neurosis that can be achieved is staggering, people compulsively checking their home cameras is obtuse. Anyways, not being one to go in for absolutes I thought I should mindfully share my perspective.

LindaMay · 2018-01-06T19:08:03Z

Garden

HANDS

Oh my!!

Ben ·

Done

· 2018-01-06T19:18:32Z

Ben · 2018-01-06T19:49:26Z

As part of my self-inflicted butt-sitting at home free time restriction. Perhaps a need to reevaluate my priorities.

Ben · 2018-01-06T23:59:33Z

That is, if worm farming counts.

Highland Fleet Lute · 2018-01-06T19:31:06Z

LindaMay is one of the most babblingly incoherent smart phone zombies on the block.

It's clear the editorial team at SOTT lost their collective balls years back. A while ago she would have been flat out banned for posting her bleach-drinking, Jim Humble proselytising, can't-find-an-apostrophe, word-salad, head-trauma-unit junk here.

LindaMay · 2018-01-06T19:55:22Z

MMS would clean out the faggots in you flutes and turn you into a man.

Extremely Woolly · 2018-01-06T20:14:09Z

Highland Fleet Lute its wrong but thanks for the evening's schadenfreude, you have performed masterly.

Potatoes and Tomatoes · 2018-01-06T19:41:26Z

That's the beauty of free speech HFL...we're all allowed to babble...and most don't need mods to protect us, unless one is oh-so-precious and incapable of turning the other cheek when our sensibilities are offended. Safe space is under the stairs or in the loft with childhood teddy bears.

Bezel Bub · 2018-01-06T19:48:43Z

Potatoes and Tomatoes What he said...