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Maryland Schools Latest to Join Lawsuit Against Social Media Giants for Mental Health Harm

April 18, 2023
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Several Maryland school districts, including Cecil, Carroll, and Montgomery County Public Schools, recently joined the growing number of U.S. school districts taking social media companies like TikTok, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, and Snapchat, to court, alleging the companies are designed to encourage youth addiction and are fueling a mental health crisis among young people. “What we’ve…

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Tech’s Attack on Our Dopamine System

January 15, 2023
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Tech companies hire rooms full of highly intelligent people to figure out how to best design their product to exploit the features of your brain’s reward systems. Their mission is to cause habitual addictive behavior. This process is called reward prediction error (RPE) encoding and features a neurotransmitter called dopamine. In a 2018 interview, former…

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Why Do We Love Sugar? 

April 28, 2022
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Sugar takes your brain on an addictive joyride that can make it hard to resist. This excerpt from Julie Daniluk’s new book, “Becoming Sugar-Free: How to Break Up With Inflammatory Sugars and Embrace a Naturally Sweet Life,” explains exactly what happens when you get eat that chocolate lava cake. Why Do We Love Sugar?  Did…

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Boost Dopamine Naturally for Better Motivation and Focus

June 6, 2021
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It’s time to get the scoop on dopamine, a substance in your brain that is also known as the motivation molecule. Your body is home to about 60 different molecules known as neurotransmitters that transfer information between your brain cells and your body. We’re writing about dopamine because, well, we were motivated! What Are Neurotransmitters?…

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Building Your Immune System With Laughter

March 29, 2021
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Despite the enormous benefits of laughter, we are often just too tired and stressed to take the time to indulge in a good belly laugh. Today, adults just do not laugh as we used to—regardless of how much our body, mind, and soul benefit from it. The health benefits of laughter are even more far-ranging…

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