Have You Thought About Dopamine Addiction And The Ancient Functions Of Our Brain W/ Andrew McConnell

Have you thought about dopamine addiction? Our brains have ancient functions that don’t serve us in modern society and the brain’s reward system has to be controlled by our conscience mind. Andrew McConnell, the author of Get Out of My Head: Creating Modern Clarity with Stoic Wisdom shares a lot of wisdom. Link in bio to listen and subscribe wherever you get podcasts and YouTube or go to KDDPODCAST.com
Andrew’s drive to share encouragement, resources, understanding, and techniques have led to the creation of this book We discuss intentional living, events that happen in our lives, and how we determine rather or not we reflect on them as positive or negative. #wedorecover #mentalhealthmatters #mentalhealth #recovery #odaat #onedayatatime

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We evolved is not the right term. We are trained to crave dopamine. This is because sugar has been added to our food since the 1940s the last few generations of Americans have been manipulated by the food industry. In a sense, we are being mutated mentally because sugar stimulates dopamine receptors and down-regulates our prefrontal cortex which affects willpower and self-control. We have been addicted since birth. How do you see something that has been there from day one? Remove sugar from your diet and you will break from dopamine addiction. I have done this a few times just to make sure it worked. Allowing sugar back in was a very slippery slope I almost didn't get away from. Be cautious