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Do You Need to Take a Dopamine Fast?

The Art of Manliness

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Do You Use Cold Water Immersion to Help Your Patients Recover From Intoxication?

The same opponent process mechanism that leads to norrow adaptation when we injest intoxicants also can occur when we engage in activities that immediately press on the pain side. What happens when we do something like exercise, for example, is that those gramlins will adapt by hopping on the pleasure side. And with repeated exposure, that pleasure will be longer and stronger. We still get access to dopmin but it's an indirect source, and therefore is less vulnerable to this problem of tolerance.

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