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162. We're All Addicted: Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence with Dr. Anna Lembke

Wellness While Walking

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Dopamine - The Neuroadaptation Gremmels on the Pain Side

If we intentionally press on the pain side, for example, with exercise or ice cold water plunges, then the neuroadaptation gremmels will jump on the pleasure side of the balance in an effort to bring it level again. We get our dopamine indirectly by paying for it up front. The good news about getting dopamine in this manner is that we never go into that dopamine deficit state.

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