"Replace online contact with in-person interaction deliberately Neuroscientist Elizabeth Redcay compared brain activity in people having live conversations versus watching the same person speak in a recorded video, and found that face-to-face interaction lights up regions tied to attention, social intelligence, and emotional reward in ways that passive or screen-based content does not. Pinker explains that "face-to-face contact releases a whole cascade of neurotransmitters and, like a vaccine, may protect you now in the present and well into the future" — with even a handshake or eye contact lowering cortisol and generating dopamine. Anyone who replaces one daily text exchange or social media scroll with a brief in-person or phone-voice interaction is making a measurable neurological investment. Source: Susan Pinker, TED Talk, The Secret to Living Longer May Be Your Social Life"