Pleasure-Saturated

Sustainable Minimalists

Bleav + Stephanie Seferian

Kids & Family, Leisure, Parenting, Home & Garden

4.8 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 23 April 2024

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

We Homo Sapiens are notorious for avoiding pain and seeking pleasure. In fact, we have transformed the planet from a place of scarcity to a place of overwhelming abundance, with ample opportunities to flood our brains with dopamine at every turn. But over-consuming has consequences: Exposure to prolonged and repeated pleasurable stimuli decreases our capacity to tolerate pain and increases our threshold for experiencing pleasure. On today's show: Resetting your neural set point to make dopamine work FOR you, not against you. Here's a preview: [3:00] Here's exactly why our brains aren't designed to work optimally in our 2024 world of pleasure [7:00] Measuring the dopamine-induced addictive potential of various foods, habits, and drugs [10:00] What goes up must come down: Here's what opponent process theory means for you and your brain [14:00] Quantifying leisure time from the Civil War to present day [24:00] Dopamine fasts work! Here's how to recalibrate your brain [28:00] How to best lean into a bit of pain (and why you may want to) Resources mentioned: Dopamine Nation: Finding Balance In The Age Of Indulgence (by Dr. Anna Lembke) Episode #316: Moderation In All Things Episode #299: Future-Conscious Thinking This show is listener-supported. Thank you for supporting! Join our (free!) community here. Find your tribe. Sustainable Minimalists are on Facebook, Instagram + Youtube. Say hello! MamaMinimalistBoston@gmail.com.

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0:00.0	It has been a summer of self-care over here. I'm talking lots of hikes, lots of beach trips with the
0:06.4	sunscreen of course, you name it, I'm fitting it in before Labor Day. Wherever you're off to this summer, know that you're taking your microbiome with you. And seeds
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1:00.8	Hi there, my friends, welcome back.
1:04.0	My name is Stephanie Safarian,
1:06.0	and you're listening to episode
1:08.0	460 of Sustainable Minimalists.
1:10.0	This is a listener supported show all about intentional and eco-friendly minimalist living.
1:17.0	On today's show we're discussing dopamine.
1:20.0	Dopamine of course is that feel-good neurotransmitter that keeps us coming back to our habits,
1:26.1	whether they're good or bad, over and over again.
1:29.7	We're also seeking to use what we learn about dopamine today so that we can live more
1:36.4	intentional lives that are aligned with our values. Now before we get there
1:39.9	we have two quick housekeeping issues. Number one, if you're tuning in because I told
1:45.4	you this was going to be an episode about pesticides on Tuesday, I just want to
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