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Dopamine Nation Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence

Anna Lembke MD

INSTANT This book is about pleasure. It’s also about pain. Most important, it’s about how to find the delicate balance between the two, and why now more than ever finding balance is essential. We’re living in a time of unprecedented access to high-reward, high-dopamine stimuli: drugs, food, news, g...

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Huberman explained that Lemke's Dopamine Nation describes how rapid, large dopamine spikes from addictive behaviors quickly lead to smaller dopamine peaks and a subsequent lowpoint, creating a cycle of craving.

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thank goodness, Anna Lemke, author of Dopamine Nation made so clear that those big, fast inflections in dopamine very quickly lead to smaller and smaller peaks in dopamine from the same behavior or su...

— Episode: Tools for Overcoming Substance & Behavio...

Episode: Tools for Overcoming Substance & Behavioral Addict...

Huberman explained that Lemke's Dopamine Nation describes how rapid, large dopamine spikes from addictive behaviors quickly lead to smaller dopamine peaks and a subsequent lowpoint, creating a cycle of craving.

"

thank goodness, Anna Lemke, author of Dopamine Nation made so clear that those big, fast inflections in dopamine very quickly lead to smaller and smaller peaks in dopamine from the same behavior or substance.

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