How To Reset Your Brain's Dopamine Balance - Anna Lembke - #392

Anna Lembke is a psychiatrist who is Chief of the Stanford Addiction Medicine Dual Diagnosis Clinic at Stanford University and an author.

Dopamine is a key neurotransmitter in our reward pathway. It tells us when to feel pleasure and pain, it can cause depression and anxiety, and it's being hijacked by the modern world. Phones, video games, porn, food, our world is filled with cheap dopamine, which in turn is making us miserable.

Expect to learn how dopamine creates a see-saw balance of pleasure and pain, why cravings to use your phone are driven by dopamine, the truth about dopamine detoxing, how to reset your brain's dopamine balance, the most successful interventions for changing your relationship to dopamine long term and much more...

Timestamps:

(00:00) Intro (00:40) How Does Dopamine Work? (10:27) Why Men Feel Sad After Sex (20:20) Dopamine Detox Truths (24:48) How Social Media Impacts Dopamine Levels (31:40) Which People Are More Likely to Become Addicted? (37:45) Preventing Addiction Through Purpose (43:55) Utilising Discomfort to Rebalance Dopamine (50:37) Anna’s Tips to Control Dopamine (1:02:49) Where to Find Anna

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