Hello and welcome back. I'm Dr. Caroline Meath and welcome to my podcast, cleaning up the mental

mace. Today we're going to talk about dopamine, rushes and withdrawals, the truth about all that

interesting stuff. But before we begin, I want to tell you about my new book coming out on the 5th of

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Okay, so let's now dive into the podcast, dopamine.

You've all heard of this. You've seen the TikToks, you've seen the

reels, you've heard the Silicon Valley talking about how you've got to do dopamine fars and

there's dopamine rushes and people saying things like, oh my gosh, I've run out of dopamine

or I'm in dopamine withdrawal because I'm so anxious. There's a lot of that kind of stuff

going on out there. Very simplified versions of what

dopamine is. So I want to talk a little bit more about what the truth about dopamine is.

And dopamine is a neurochemical and a neurotransmitter, which means it's a chemical in your brain.

It's also a chemical in your gut. 50% of dopamine is actually formed in your gut.

And that's why when we get excited or worked up or something's going on in our life, that's highly

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