Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence | Anna Lembke | Talks at Google

Professor and author Anna Lembke discusses her book “Dopamine Nation: Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence”, a deep-dive into the exciting new scientific discoveries about the relentless pursuit of pleasure. Condensing complex neuroscience into easy-to-understand metaphors, Lembke illustrates how finding contentment and connectedness means keeping dopamine in check, combining the science of desire with the wisdom of recovery.

Anna Lembke, MD is professor of psychiatry at Stanford University School of Medicine and chief of the Stanford Addiction Medicine Dual Diagnosis Clinic. A clinician scholar, she is the author of more than a hundred peer-reviewed publications, has testified before the United States House of Representatives and Senate, has served as an expert witness in federal and state opioid litigation, and is an internationally recognized leader in addiction medicine treatment and education. In 2016, she published “Drug Dealer, MD – How Doctors Were Duped, Patients Got Hooked, and Why It’s So Hard to Stop”, named in the New York Times as one of the top five books to read to understand the opioid epidemic. Dr. Lembke appeared in the Netflix documentary “The Social Dilemma”, an unvarnished look at the impact of social media on our lives.

Moderated by Camila Williams.

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[SkyeMpuremagic]

I feel like Anna Lembke is one of the few people on Earth who's actually honest about marijuana addiction. She helped me overcome my battle from withdrawals when I quit and inspired me to stay sober. She's one of few people living today that I actually admire. Much love & respect for her. 💜

[fsmxrgi]

Anna is the one who confess and can be trusted.

[myrnaalexander]

As psychotherapist and health counselor, I so enjoyed your highly insightful talk, Dr Lemberg! Very helpful in treating my clients! Thank you for your wealth of knowledge!

[CulinaryPhysics]

Anna Lembke’s talk on finding balance in the age of indulgence is so insightful and thought-provoking. Her book ‘Dopamine Nation’ is a must-read for anyone looking to understand the science behind pleasure and addiction. 📚

[davidnich]

Most useful book I've read in past few years, probably changed my life. Quite difficult to fully grasp though. Also important I think she mentions only once in the book overconsumption is raping the planet, we can save the planet along with ourselves by consuming less pleasure.

[aNobody]

Lol at the end: Camila: "Where can people contact you?" Anna: "No".

[dr.florence]

What I do in my "free time" is commute to work and back (2 hours), go good shopping, cook, clean up. That takes many many hours every day. So 7 hours shrinks to 5 shrinks to 3. That'smno that much. (And then there is care-taking responsibilities, having a job that has you work on weekends at
home, and on it goes.) It's not so much about daily hours of "free" time but how the system is structured to help (or not) us enjoy SOME of that time.

[mastodans]

This is the most insightful discussion I have seen this year. Thank you for sharing this video.

[DaboooogA]

Great talk thanks - Dr Lembke's insights are very important in our age.

[SkyeMpuremagic]

Again, it is important to clarify that Serotonin (happiness) is different from dopamine (pleasure)

People need to know the difference between Serotonin and Dopamine
Serotonin produces LASTING HAPPINESS

Dopamine produces temporary pleasure that if over indulged in actually leads to a deficit of dopamine (because we fry our own receptors that produce it by over stimulation) which flings us into depression and leads to dependency (of substances, erotic content, social media etc etc)

I learned this recently myself 

Please spread this knowledge around to as many as will listen! 

Research it!!

This is of vital importance for society to begin to recognize!!

[SkyeMpuremagic]

There is a difference between Serotonin-which produces LASTING HAPPINESS
and Dopamine-which produces temporary pleasure that if overdone leads to depression and dependency. I learned that recently. Please research it! I hope the host of this talk reads the comments but probably not.

[sheldonchou]

May I ask what 'gremlin' is?

[missaomagica]

Just love her book, google could much better on this field.

[naturelover]

nasty women at work that were repulsive to look at and hear all day, yet had all kinds of advice for me and mine, have kept me motivated not to be like them for 40-50 years now, and still. Self appointed authorities once married with children and no education.