Josh TrentIdentity Transformation Architect and award winning Host of the Wellness + Wisdom Podcast—a decade-strong show with over 750 episodes and 15M downloads.

Why Dating Apps Are Breaking Our Biology

20 Mar 2026 · 0 min

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In this brief conversational excerpt, two speakers discuss how modern dating apps flood users with an overwhelming number of potential partners—estimated at around 5,000—creating a paralysis of choice. They argue that human neurobiology, specifically the limbic system and prefrontal cortex, is not equipped to process such massive, rapid input, leading to a mismatch between our evolutionary design and current digital environments. The dialogue extends this mismatch to relational dynamics, suggesting that the excess of options disrupts how people form and maintain relationships, reflecting a broader problem of humanity creating technologies that outpace our capacity to adapt.

Of course, in this digital age of dating apps, it's very easy to just become paralyzed because there's a perception that there's 5,000 people out there.
Holy shit, we're in the age of choice. There's so much choice. I even heard some stats that our grandparents would see 100 times less things than we see now.
Oh yeah. And we're not designed for this.
The input on the limbic system and how the prefrontal cortex works and just our neurology literally can't keep up with how much input we're experiencing. And I wonder how that translates to relational dynamics as well.
Oh, it translates to everything. We've done this with everything. This is the problem with humanity. We are able to create above and beyond our capacity to evolve to meet the criteria with which we ourselves, you know, created.