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This week is slightly different to our normal episodes, we thought we'd have a bit of light heated fun this week talking about Dopamine Fasting so we give our personal thoughts on it!
Dopamine fasting is a silicon valley craze and it's rising in popularity. The idea is to reduce your exposure to dopamine creating stimulus in order to “reset” your body. It's born on the idea that we have so many dopamine hits daily that we’ve become numb. 

It varies in levels of intensity. Some people go on a digital detox, whereas the most extreme version involves periods of 24hrs where you don’t eat or drink anything but water and even avoid talking to other people as this can be a stimulus.

The Science Section!
There were no studies available but we but did find a blog post from Harvard Medical School:

https://www.health.harvard.edu/blog/dopamine-fasting-misunderstanding-science-spawns-a-maladaptive-fad-2020022618917

Their conclusion is you can’t fast from a naturally occurring brain chemical and so the science doesn’t support it (This talks about the extreme version of fasting. They do see benefits in a digital detox as an opportunity to reconnect)

We discuss how to do this in a healthy way in our social media episodes, so we encourage you to go back and check them out!

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