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On Purpose with Jay Shetty · September 23, 2024 · 65m
Anna Lembke on How to Reset Your Dopamine
Stanford psychiatrist Anna Lembke explains the pleasure-pain balance in the brain, why modern abundance is creating epidemic-level addiction, and practical strategies for resetting your dopamine system.
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Highlights
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The brain maintains a pleasure-pain balance — every hit of pleasure is followed by an equal and opposite pain response
Lembke explains that the brains pleasure and pain processing shares the same neural circuits. After a dopamine spike (scrolling, sugar, drugs), the brain compensates with an equal dip below baseline. Chronic stimulation shifts the set point toward pain.•
A 30-day dopamine fast is the most effective intervention for resetting the pleasure-pain balance
Lembke prescribes a clinical protocol: 30 days of complete abstinence from the addictive substance or behavior. This allows the brains pleasure-pain balance to reset to its natural set point.Was this useful?