Conversations w/ Great Minds -Dr. Anna Lembke - Dopamine Nation Part One

Is America hooked on Dopamine?


Dr. Anna Lembke is the Professor of Psychiatry-Stanford University School of Medicine and Chief of the Stanford Addiction Medicine Dual Diagnosis Clinic / Author of the new book, Dopamine Nation: Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence.

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[georgefurman]

Thanks Thom you got me enough dopamine for the day.

[leealexander]

Facebook uses anger to keep people engaged. They also lead you down some crazy rabbit holes if you let them. You can be looking for a perfectly normal subject and suddenly find yourself led to something totally batshit crazy. I've looked down a few rabbit holes but have always avoided climbing in.

[mrich]

When I had major surgery I was denied proper medication. My surgeon ordered meds every 4 hours. The doctor in private rehab changed it to 6 hours. I was in a lot of pain for a few months. Mostly Tylenol with a little Oxecoden. I was never even a coffee drinker let alone drug addict. They have gone too far denying drugs for short term healing pain. Tylenol never worked for me period even to relieve menstrual pain every so often. Not all of us are drug addicts but need pain relief after surgery. It was cruel.

[livondiramerian]

Our systems create anxiety, stress, depression, & suicides because they are based on superficial grounds. People should focus on core issues of life which will make them in a better healthy state with no need for drugs.

[annefischer]

Mark Zuckerberg The Pusher. Priceless! This is why we need to be pushing social media and relationship education in our high schools and really middle schools because that's when that age group is so susceptible to peer pressure. As as a former Child and Family development specialist and teacher in the field, piping and social worker as well in many areas, our society has changed so much. we need to update what and how we teach kids about addictions whether it is food, sex, and even violence and any other debilitating Behavior. But the media social as it is called which isn't very social but it is what the tool that pulls all these propensities for Addictive Behavior together into one platform and so we get a mess overdose period including the news ughh so people are less and less getting outside and enjoying the beauty of this Earth before we pollute it into its demise!

[subs]

This talk waa addicting. Gonna search for more of her interviews.

[subs]

Is the second part of this interview going to be published on YouTube?

[leealexander]

Brain chemistry is an interesting subject so please do have the conversation. I get my dopamine fix from horses.

[peapieable]

Excellently explained. Of course having had and often experience that neurological compensation from mild to extreme physical discomfort, as well as dismissing a carb free diet due to a small whiff of fresh bread. Balance ingredients and preheating the oven...

I wonder if those that find themselves caught up in the belief that financial gain, power and leverage over their fellows have withdrawn levels of dopamine if one has to share to those that helped in one's "rise". A behavioral addiction that is effectively disastrous for the future of the human family and it home.

[elainegoad]

We need some iodized salt in our diet.

[leealexander]

Maybe that's why I can't gain some much needed weight. I reduce the sugar in my recipes to next to nothing, rarely eat fatty food aside from butter and cream in a few recipes that I make rarely and should probably eat more salt because I my doctor had to prescribe 2 one gram sodium pills in order to keep me out of the hospital with an electrolyte deficit. I don't like porn or social media although I do enjoy a wide variety of subjects I can easily find on YouTube. Books are one of my favorite things along with the arts with arabian horses being the best thing ever created. I'm currently looking for the right mare to go with my stallion and think I might have located just the right one. I might add a few more later if my health holds up. Any activities I'm invited to enjoy with my adult son and his girlfriend is, of course, a huge dopamine fix. My addiction is coffee.

[melissaverduin]

Wow. Very interesting! She's so right about the foods too! See Vani Hari's(The Food Babe)investigations! And she has good books! 1) Feeding You Lies 2) The Foodbabe Way