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

Modern Wisdom

Chris Williamson

Society & Culture, Health & Fitness

4.6 • 5.9K Ratings

🗓️ 1 November 2021

⏱️ 68 minutes

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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... Extra Stuff: Buy Dopamine Nation - https://amzn.to/3pL2Uw8 Get my free Reading List of 100 books to read before you die → https://chriswillx.com/books/ To support me on Patreon (thank you): https://www.patreon.com/modernwisdom - Get in touch. Join the discussion with me and other like minded listeners in the episode comments on the MW YouTube Channel or message me... Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/chriswillx Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/chriswillx YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/ModernWisdomPodcast Email: https://chriswillx.com/contact/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Oh hello friends, welcome back to the show.
0:03.6	My guest today is Anna Lemke.
0:05.5	She's a psychiatrist who is chief of the Stanford Addiction Medicine Jewel Diagnosis Clinic
0:10.8	at Stanford University and an author.
0:13.5	Dopamine is a key neurotransmitter in our reward pathway.
0:17.0	It tells us when to feel pleasure and pain, it can cause depression and anxiety, and it's
0:22.2	being hijacked by the modern world.
0:24.4	Fones, video games, porn, food, our world is filled with cheap dopamine, which in turn
0:29.8	is making us miserable.
0:32.2	Expect to learn how dopamine creates a seesaw balance of pleasure and pain.
0:37.0	Why cravings to use your phone are driven by dopamine, the truth about dopamine detoxing,
0:42.1	how to reset your brain's balance, the most successful interventions for changing your
0:46.4	relationship to dopamine long-term and much more.
0:51.0	This is one of the most fundamental levels of understanding that I think everyone needs
0:56.5	in the modern era.
0:57.6	This is the chemical, which is being manipulated the most by the hyper-convenient, super-abundant
1:03.4	world that we have about us.
1:05.5	And it's like a children in school need to be taught this.
1:09.5	They need to understand what dopamine is, how it plays a role in their lives, and how
1:13.4	to control it.
1:14.6	The excesses of pleasure end up causing us pain, and that paradox is something that I totally
1:19.7	didn't realize there is so much to take away from today.
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