Dopamine - Dr. Anna Lembke - Neuroscience

Collective Insights

Qualia Life

Alternative Health, Life Sciences, Health & Fitness, Philosophy, Society & Culture, Science

4.8 • 525 Ratings

🗓️ 19 July 2022

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

We live in a time of unprecedented access to high reward, high-dopamine stimuli and it’s taking a toll on our minds and bodies. Today, Dr. Anna Lembke, Chief of the Stanford Addiction Medicine Dual Diagnosis Clinic at Stanford University School of Medicine and author of Dopamine Nation: Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence is here to help us maintain a healthy sense of pleasure seeking in life. This episode has something for everyone: an overview of dopamine, an explanation of the pleasure pain-balance, an exploration of the impact of culture and social institutions on human behavior, and hormetic activities that naturally boost dopamine levels. We discuss: How dopamine is involved in the pleasure-pain balance The role that serotonin plays in homeostasis Why a world if indulgence has led to dopamine deficits How flow states and human connections stimulate dopamine production Evaluating the risk-reward of psychedelics and dopamine mechanisms Leveraging hormetic activities to boost dopamine levels Settle in, and get ready to learn how to maintain balanced dopamine levels in a world of pleasure.

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0:00.0	So a lot of these experiences that basically are fundamentally adaptive for us will release dopamine.
0:07.9	And we've evolved over millions of years to approach these kinds of dopamine releasing substances and behaviors.
0:16.4	Because for most of human existence, that is adaptive for us, right?
0:20.6	Finding food, finding clothing, finding warmth and shelter, finding a mate, having, you know,
0:26.6	collective religious experiences that more tightly bind the social group together.
0:32.6	These are all highly adapted.
0:34.6	The problem is that now we have so much access to so many reinforcing drugs
0:39.3	and behaviors and there's so much more potent and the quantity is endless that now we've got
0:43.9	this fire hose of dopamine that we really weren't adapted to deal with. And that's what we're
0:49.9	struggling with today.
0:54.0	Collective insights as a voyage through topics and technologies revolutionizing human
0:58.2	well-being.
0:59.6	Groundbreaking approaches for a better world and a better life away you.
1:03.3	Welcome to Collective Insights.
1:07.8	Welcome to the Collective Insights podcast.
1:13.8	I am your host for today's episode, Dr. Dan Stickler, and I have the pleasure of having Dr. Anna Lemke here, and this is someone who I've been wanting to have a conversation with after reading her book.
1:22.6	She's a professor of psychiatry at Stanford University School of Medicine and chief of the Stanford Addiction Medicine Dual Diagnosis Clinic.
1:31.7	Dr. Lemke is also a leading mind in the opioid crisis and the author of Dopamine Nation, finding balance in the age of indulgence,
1:40.5	which explores how to moderate compulsive overconsumption in a dopamine overloaded world.
1:47.7	Welcome, Dr. Lumpke.
1:49.4	Thank you.
1:50.2	Thank you for having me.
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