91. Calm and Productivity - with Chris Bailey
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Dopamine Fasting
Sally Kohn: Dopamine fasting is a term that's been thrown around quite a bit. We can't fast from dopamine anymore than we can fast from carbohydrates on a chemical level, she says. But what we canfast from are the empty sources of dopamine, where we engage with an activity primarily for the hit of dopamine itself and so stimulation becomes addictive. Kohn: I find myself conducting a stimulation fast maybe every three to four months or so for about a month because it works really well for me.
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