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

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Dopemine Fast

Evolutionarily, dopamine fast is necessary to prevent complacency and ensure survival. Engaging in a dopamine fast for at least a day helps in resetting reward pathways by experiencing craving and triggers mindfully. Maintaining a balance in using pleasurable activities moderately prevents falling into a dopamine deficit state and becoming dependent on such behaviors. Implementing self-binding strategies such as limiting access to addictive substances and practicing radical honesty with oneself and others aids in regulating pleasure-pain balance and fostering accountability.

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