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#73: Hacking of the Human Mind - Robert Lustig, MD, MSL

The FitMind Podcast: Mental Fitness, Neuroscience & Psychology

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Reward and Contentment Are Synonymous

Mister mc clintock, my pleasure. So there is so many addictions in to day's modern society,. and you've written a lot about this, sugar, drugs, porn, social media. And i'd love to start there and see if you could explain just the basic mechanism for folks. Because in reading your book, your earlier book, hacking of the american mind, you make it clear that this is the same primal reward system that's being tapped into here by a lot of different companies. Absolutely. People need to understand these differences in order to be able to make head or tail of one, the world, and number two, how they are being manipulated by the

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