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Episode #61: How Does Porn Deplete Dopamine? - Dr. Trish Leigh

Dr. Trish Leigh Podcast

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Dopamine Is the Neurotransmitter That Motivates You Back to Homeostasis

Dopamine is the neurotransmitter that motivates you back to a behavior for pleasure. At normal natural levels, your brain would have been used to having to go to work in school or get an A and get some dopamine there. But porn has hijacked that homeostasis and it created neo-homeostasis. That's what the hijacking of the system does.

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