Dr Sanjiv Nichani OBE: Why the Young Brain Was Never Built for This

Dr Sanjiv Nichani OBE, consultant paediatric intensivist and author of Movement is Medicine, joins Best Beginnings to explain why young children's brains are evolutionarily defenceless against smartphones and social media and what the science says about the antidote. He shares what he started seeing in his own clinic, the neuroscience behind why the developing brain cannot resist addictive algorithms and why physical activity works on the brain's neurochemistry through exactly the same mechanisms as medication for ADHD and depression. He also discusses Healing Little Hearts, the charity he founded that has performed heart surgery on over 4,000 children around the world.