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Everything you Need to Know About Dopamine with Dr Anna Lembke, MD

The Neuro Experience

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Dopamine Fast

The dopamine fast is a great way to tell the body, okay, we're no longer getting dopamine from the outside. It's time to start up regulating our own feel good hormones and neurotransmitters. And yes, my patients who excessively game or are excessively on social media or other online activities, I will ask them to abstain from that behavior for a month. A month is on average, the amount of time it takes to reset reward pathways.

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