Dopamine Expert: Short Form Videos Are Frying Your Brain! This Is A Dopamine Disaster!

There's a great experiment where rats were given a lever to press for cocaine, and after learning that it releases a lot of dopamine, the rats will press that lever till exhaustion or death. Which is essentially the model of addiction that we see in humans. But if the cocaine is then removed, eventually they won't press the lever anymore. Now if that same rat, after a period of time, is then exposed to a very painful foot shock, the first thing the rat will do is run over and start pressing that lever again. And that's really powerful because it shows that when individuals are under extreme stress, they are more vulnerable to going back to compulsive overconsumption of our drug choice because their brain has already encoded using these high dopamine rewards as a way to get out of that pain. Okay, so what do I need to do to make sure that I can knock the bad habits and out? Here's what we do. Doctor Anna Lemke is chief of the Stanford Addiction Clinic and a world leading expert on the subject of dopamine. And now she's returned to warn us that addiction is the modern plague and how we can rewire our brains to take back control. On average, it takes Four weeks for people to get out of constant state of craving. But here's the problem. Our survival depends on figuring out how to live in a world of abundance. For example, we're now seeing the drugification of human connection through social media, dating apps, and now artificial intelligence designed to flatter.

to validate there's no friction there. And so it's pulling us away from the hard things that we need to be doing in real life to cultivate real life relationships. Just we cannot go in that direction because in a world of abundance, we are entertaining ourselves to death. Sounds like a good way to go. It's really not. Because the relentless pursuit of pleasure leads to anhedonia. What's that mean? At all. Teach me everything. Just give me thirty seconds of your time.

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