Oh hello friends, welcome back to the show.

My guest today is Anna Lemke.

She's a psychiatrist who is chief of the Stanford Addiction Medicine Jewel 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.

Fones, 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 seesaw 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 balance, the most successful interventions for changing your

relationship to dopamine long-term and much more.

This is one of the most fundamental levels of understanding that I think everyone needs

in the modern era.

This is the chemical, which is being manipulated the most by the hyper-convenient, super-abundant

world that we have about us.

And it's like a children in school need to be taught this.

They need to understand what dopamine is, how it plays a role in their lives, and how

to control it.

The excesses of pleasure end up causing us pain, and that paradox is something that I totally

didn't realize there is so much to take away from today.

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