Why Are We So Addicted to Everything? With Nicklas Brendborg
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Welcome to Intelligence Squared, where great minds meet. I'm producer Mia Serenti. Why do we find it so hard to resist the things we know are bad for us? From junk food to endless scrolling. On today's episode, author and scientist Nicholas Brenborg joins us to discuss his new book, Super Stimulated, which explores how modern life is hijacking our evolutionary instincts.
In conversation with Emma Weinel, He reveals how powerful companies exploit our biology through super stimuli, exaggerated versions of the things we evolved to crave, and what we can do to reclaim control over our habits, our health, and our happiness. Let's join our host, Emma Weinel now, with more. Welcome to Intelligence Squared. I'm Dr.
Emma Weinel, and today our guest is Niklas Brandborg, a Danish author and scientist. He holds an MA in biotechnology from the University of Copenhagen and while studying he wrote Jellyfish Age Backwards, Nature's Secrets to Longevity, which was published in 2021. It instantly entered the bestseller charts and it was also nominated for Science Book of the Year with the Royal Society in 2023 and the youngest ever a shortlisting of that award, which is pretty awesome. Today we are going to be talking about his most recent book, Super Stimulated, how our biology is being manipulated to create bad habits, and what we can do about it. Welcome to Intelligent Squared, Nicholas.
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