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#345 BITESIZE | Why We Are All Addicts | Dr Anna Lembke

Feel Better, Live More with Dr Rangan Chatterjee

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Introduction

Anna Lemke, a professor of psychiatry at Stanford University's School of Medicine and author of the book Dopamine Nation explains why we're living in a dopamine overloaded world. 70% of the global deaths today are caused by modifiable risk factors such as diet, lack of exercise and smoking. We really have reached a tipping point when we are dying because of our behaviors. And I really do think that the problem of compulsory consumption or addiction is the modern plague that we will be dealing with for the next hundreds of years.

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