Dr. Anna Lembke: ADDICTION, dopamine, and DOPAMINE FASTING (dopamine detox) | Ep 17

Dr. Anna Lembke, MD, is a psychiatrist and Chief of the Stanford Addiction Dual Diagnosis Clinic at Stanford Medicine. She's the expert in treating all kinds of addictions, from clinical to subclinical: drugs, alcohol, online shopping, apps, food, s3x, video games, gambling, and others. Dr. Lembke is also a best-selling author, and her latest book is being translated into 25 languages (Dopamine Nation: Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence). In this episode, we discuss how to recognize & defeat addiction and the role of dopamine in addiction. We cover practical tools for winning the battle with addiction, like dopamine fasting (dopamine detox), self-binding, exercise, and cold exposure.

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www.youtube.com/@iaminkaland 00:00 Intro 03:00 Dopamine and its roles in Behaviour

05:50 How dopamine creates pleasure, pain, and withdrawal 08:50 What is addiction 15:00 -16:15 and 23:23 - 29:04 Dopamine detox / Dopamine fasting 16:15 State of addiction today, is addiction increasing 19:35 What behaviors can become an addiction? 20:50 Can you get addicted to exercise, fasting, or cold exposures? 23:23 Dopamine fasting (dopamine detox) explained 27:45 I did dopamine fasting - here's what happened 29:04 Self-binding and other ways to compulsive use 32:35 Increase dopamine naturally: baseline dopamine, cold exposure, exercise, yoga, martial arts training, etc.