Never Diet Again with Max Lowery
May 18, 2026 · 50 min · 19 segments
What if your “lack of discipline” is actually an ADHD brain searching for stimulation? In this episode, I’m joined by meditation coach Will Fraser to talk about ADHD, menopause, dopamine, emotional…
Um, uh, the, the doom scroll, kind of the infinite scroll, the, the dopamine, uh, hijacking, the, um, the notifications, the kind of constant seeking of that dopamine hit, which the apps and the social media have, have found a way to kind of hack, um, to get you hooked onto those things.
It's, it's really quite bad, and, you know, I'm, I'm fully on board with schools banning phones and, and even, you know, an under 16 ban for, for social media in general because I think it really has had a, a, a terrible impact.
And it all kind of began really with the, with, as I said, the, the infinite scroll, which I think was probably invented around about 2010.
Um, and it just, it's just designed to keep you hooked and the algorithm to feed you more and more and more.
You know, they're, they're, they're undeveloped, and, and if you're training the brain to need that dopamine at a very early age, that then...
You're stuck with that for the rest of your life, and that's, that's gonna cause real damage, I think.
Yeah, I read a book called Digital Minimalism by Cal Newport, which is a very good book, and he goes into detail.
Though he was speaking to a Facebook whistleblower, I think, who has also written his own books on the topic, and he talked about how essentially the swiping is like a roulette machine.
It's the same addictive, um, things going on because essentially it's, it's random intermittent reward that you get, so you don't get a dopamine respoard, respo- um, uh, response every single time you log in and swipe, but also you don't get it not at all.
It's that you don't know when you're gonna get it, and that's what keeps people, uh, hooked and addicted.
And, you know, it's, it's bad enough for adults, right? I have to constantly check myself with my social media and my, my phone use because obviously my job, uh, marketing the job and, uh, is, is on s- social me- social media and Instagram.
I have to play that game, but it's a constant battle of trying to keep it in check with deleting certain apps, locking myself out of certain apps over the weekends, not having my phone in my bedroom, uh, having quite hard and fast rules with my wife when we're having dinner that we won't have, um, phones at the table, same with friends.
[lip smacks] So, you know, the impact that it must be having on, on children must be even greater, and I think we're only just beginning to realize the...
You know, people are just catching up to it now, hence the bans, uh, hence, uh, all this stuff happening.
Um, and, you know, I'm hoping it might be just well known that, like you wouldn't get a child to smoke-
Um, uh, the, the doom scroll, kind of the infinite scroll, the, the dopamine, uh, hijacking, the, um, the notifications, the kind of constant seeking of that dopamine hit, which the apps and the social media have, have found a way to kind of hack, um, to get you hooked onto those things.
It's, it's really quite bad, and, you know, I'm, I'm fully on board with schools banning phones and, and even, you know, an under 16 ban for, for social media in general because I think it really has had a, a, a terrible impact.
And it all kind of began really with the, with, as I said, the, the infinite scroll, which I think was probably invented around about 2010.
Um, and it just, it's just designed to keep you hooked and the algorithm to feed you more and more and more.
You know, they're, they're, they're undeveloped, and, and if you're training the brain to need that dopamine at a very early age, that then...
You're stuck with that for the rest of your life, and that's, that's gonna cause real damage, I think.
Yeah, I read a book called Digital Minimalism by Cal Newport, which is a very good book, and he goes into detail.
Though he was speaking to a Facebook whistleblower, I think, who has also written his own books on the topic, and he talked about how essentially the swiping is like a roulette machine.
It's the same addictive, um, things going on because essentially it's, it's random intermittent reward that you get, so you don't get a dopamine respoard, respo- um, uh, response every single time you log in and swipe, but also you don't get it not at all.
It's that you don't know when you're gonna get it, and that's what keeps people, uh, hooked and addicted.
And, you know, it's, it's bad enough for adults, right? I have to constantly check myself with my social media and my, my phone use because obviously my job, uh, marketing the job and, uh, is, is on s- social me- social media and Instagram.
I have to play that game, but it's a constant battle of trying to keep it in check with deleting certain apps, locking myself out of certain apps over the weekends, not having my phone in my bedroom, uh, having quite hard and fast rules with my wife when we're having dinner that we won't have, um, phones at the table, same with friends.
[lip smacks] So, you know, the impact that it must be having on, on children must be even greater, and I think we're only just beginning to realize the...
You know, people are just catching up to it now, hence the bans, uh, hence, uh, all this stuff happening.
Um, and, you know, I'm hoping it might be just well known that, like you wouldn't get a child to smoke-
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