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Bite Size, your weekly dose of positivity and optimism to get you ready for the

weekend. Today's clip is from episode 22 of the podcast with Dr. Anna Lemke, a professor of psychiatry

at Stanford University's School of Medicine, an author of the book, Dopamine Nation.

In this clip, Anna explains why we're living in a world that's turned us all into addicts,

and she shares some practical tips to help us find the right balance.

We're living in a dopamine overloaded world where everything has become drugified.

Everything has been made more accessible, more abundant, more potent, more reinforcing, more novel.

And so we're really living in a world that has turned us all into addicts, essentially. 70% of the global deaths today are caused by modifiable risk factors.

The top three are diet, lack of exercise, and smoking. So we really have reached a tipping point

when we are dying because of our behaviors. And I really do think that the problem of

compulsive overconsumption or addiction is the modern plague that we will be dealing with

for the next hundreds of years.

Given how important dopamine is, well, one of its functions, as you say, is our pursuit of pleasure.

You say it's intimately linked with addiction. So where is that sweet spot where we can use it to gain pleasure, you know, gain those rewards

that we all want without it sort of tipping over into addiction?

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