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The Skeptics Guide #927 - Apr 15 2023

The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe

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The Effects of Dopamine on the Brain

The claim is that people are overwhelmed with dopamine because we're constantly doing things to give ourselves a dopamine hit, right? And so you spend either like a certain amount of time per day or acertain amount of days per week, like one day a week or a week a year or whatever, where you avoid anything that would give you dopamine in order to sort of reset your brain. So it's not addicted to dopamine, right? Okay. That sounds impossible. But let's go a little deeper and say exactly why. The dopamine itself doesn't feel good. It's like you do like, you know what I mean? You do something that feels good. You can't even feel dopamine

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