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Podcast: Read & Repeat
Episode: EP1 Dopamine Nation by Dr. Anna Lembke
Description: We start off with Dopamine Nation, an excellent book by Dr. Anna Lembke on the struggles of addiction and how the neurotransmitter dopamine plays a role in our body. We'll discuss the fundamental pleasure-pain seesaw, which is an easy-to-grasp metaphor explaining how dopamine regulates our motivation and movement when pursuing rewards. We will also go through the DOPAMINE Framework tool that Dr. Lembke uses with her patients to quit their addictions.
We'll touch on multiple tools from habit building and cognitive science that help limit negative habits, such as time restraints, public commitments, environmental...