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#392 - Anna Lembke - How To Reset Your Brain's Dopamine Balance

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Chronic Pain - Is That Not the Way It Works?

A person with chronic pain who starts out in pain their physiologic system will want to return to that base line. With repeated exposure to the same or similar pleasure stimulus, we end up in a deeper, dopumin deficit state. So there's no free lunch. What goes up must come down. And if you start out in chronic pain, you're also subject to the same problems of tolerance and dependence.

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