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Podcast: The MindHealth360 Show
Episode: 85: Dr. Anna Lembke: Dopamine Fasting: A Solution to Overwhelm, Depression and Anxiety in the Digital Age
Description: In her presentation for the IMMH 2023 conference, Dopamine Fasting: An Early Intervention for Compulsive Overconsumption in the Digital Age, Dr. Anna Lembke explains how the pleasure–pain balance in the brain – once an adaptive survival mechanism – has become dangerously dysregulated in modern societies. Drawing from cutting-edge neuroscience and decades of clinical experience, she shows how our dopamine-overloaded world of constant stimulation and "drugified" everyday activities have created unprecedented vulnerability to addiction, anxiety, depression, and unhappiness. Through her clear, compassionate teaching, Dr. Lembke reveals how repeated exposure to high-reward experiences alters the brain's reward pathways, driving down our baseline dopamine and co...