271. Dr. Stephanie Haridopolos: On Screen Harms in Kids & the Surgeon General's New Advisory
2026-05-21 · 43 min · episode 271 · 4 entities
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Since 2010, math scores in 13-year-olds have dropped 14%, reading has dropped 7%, and by 2050, 40% of kids are projected to have myopia and the Surgeon General's office just connected that curve to the screen in your child's hand. Today, I sat down with Dr. Stephanie Haridopolos, Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of Health at HHS, to walk through the new advisory on screen harms, the 5-D framework parents can use today, and what bell-to-bell phone policies are actually doing in 37 states.
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Timestamps
00:00 - Introduction: Screen harms and the Surgeon General
01:15 - The MAHA partnership and HHS direction
02:51 - From family physician to HHS leadership
04:18 - Demystifying the office of the Surgeon General
06:45 - 25 years of patient care meets public policy
07:56 - A congenital heart defect at age four
10:48 - The new advisory on screen use in youth
12:37 - What the science actually shows
15:40 - Metabolic health and the military recruitment crisis
16:36 - Myopia: 40% of kids by 2050
18:16 - The 2010 collapse in math and reading
19:11 - An entire generation as an experiment
20:05 - Bell-to-bell phone policies and what's working
21:40 - Mental health, body dysmorphia, and deepfakes
23:47 - The five-D framework for parents
27:07 - Why more states haven't adopted bell-to-bell
28:35 - Gut dysbiosis and the body's engine
33:37 - The newborn screening updates saving lives
35:01 - Chronic Lyme disease and federal recognition
38:13 - Lyme awareness month and treatment gaps
39:08 - Bringing 25 years of practice into policy
40:45 - What does it mean to you to be an Ultimate Human?
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