{"id":226330,"date":"2025-12-02T17:10:20","date_gmt":"2025-12-02T23:10:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/12\/how-gen-z-is-fighting-back-against-digital-brain-rot"},"modified":"2025-12-02T17:10:20","modified_gmt":"2025-12-02T23:10:20","slug":"how-gen-z-is-fighting-back-against-digital-brain-rot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/12\/how-gen-z-is-fighting-back-against-digital-brain-rot","title":{"rendered":"How Gen Z is fighting back against digital brain rot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/how-gen-z-is-fighting-back-against-digital-brain-rot.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cBrain rot is not really rotting our brains,\u201d says Earl Miller, a cognitive neuroscientist at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. \u201cIt\u2019s constantly creating an environment that our brains are not equipped to deal with\u2014that\u2019s the real problem.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>From analog hobbies to tech curfews, these Gen Zers are experimenting with science-backed ways to help their brains feel a little less foggy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cBrain rot is not really rotting our brains,\u201d says Earl Miller, a cognitive neuroscientist at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. \u201cIt\u2019s constantly creating an environment that our brains are not equipped to deal with\u2014that\u2019s the real problem. From analog hobbies to tech curfews, these Gen Zers are experimenting with science-backed ways to help their brains feel [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":701,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-226330","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226330","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/701"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=226330"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226330\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=226330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=226330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=226330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}