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Mayim Bialik's Breakdown

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Dopomin Is a Non Infinite Yet Renewable Resource

The key thing for people to understand is that dopemine is regulated by all sorts of things. It's not unique to sex, or to social media, or to food, or to any one thing. But it has an architecture and a sort of characteristic pattern. And that pattern can be best summarized as what we call reward prediction error. When something really wonderful happens that you didn't expect, you get a big release of dopomin when you anticipate something great. If your always forward center o mass, you're getting waves in this wave pool. After this is the pe pleasure and pain ar balance, also like a ceasa on the nervous system.

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