951: Anna Lembke | Finding Dopamine Balance in the Age of Indulgence
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🗓️ 13 February 2024
⏱️ 75 minutes
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Summary
Dopamine Nation author Anna Lembke helps us understand why it's difficult to resist the temptations of a world designed to exploit our pursuit of pleasure.
What We Discuss with Anna Lembke:- The neuroscience of addiction and the role dopamine plays in keeping us hooked.
- How modern society's unrestricted indulgence in pleasurable substances and behaviors can lead to addictive tendencies and the gratification of constant dopamine release.
- The pros and cons of using psychedelics.
- The impact of resource scarcity on instant gratification.
- The need to address underlying conditions for effective addiction treatment.
- And much more...
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| 0:09.3 | We are so insulated from pain in our everyday lives. Most of us don't even really move our |
| 0:14.9 | bodies very much at all. So we have more leisure time, more disposable income, |
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| 0:24.0 | I believe that that is a major contributor to the growing rates of unhappiness. |
| 0:29.0 | It's because there's too much pleasure and too little of the right kinds of pain for our brains to be able to stay in a healthy balance. |
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