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Episode #28: Masturbation Machine, Porn in Your Pocket, Euphoric Recall and Cravings - Dr. Trish Leigh w/ Anna Lembke

Dr. Trish Leigh Podcast

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Orgasm and Neuroadaptation and Tolerance

The way that our brain adapts to any increase in dopamine firing by down regulating our own dopamine production transmission, inevitably with repeated exposures, it's going to be less and less rewarding. We need more of the stimulus or frequency, more quantity and more potent forms to overcome those gremlins who are adapting. I think this is really important in my work with patients with pornography addiction because they're usually using very, let's say, deviant forms of pornography.

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