What is your drug of choice? Alcohol, anxiety medication, social media, video games, porn, cocaine, erotica novels? That’s right, your drug of choice doesn’t have to be a drug at all but what that entire list does is triggers dopamine to be released in your brain, the pleasure seeking neurotransmitter and that little gremlin is responsible for always wanting more than we know is good for us. So on today’s podcast we get to understand dopamine, it’s impact on our choices and how we can take back our lives from the cycle of pleasure seeking addiction. 

On this episode we discussed:

• What is Dopamine and what does it do for me?
• The pleasure-pain balance in the brain 
• Why dopamine does not have a stop button 
• How addictive behaviour is fueled by our environment 
• The complex nature of pleasure seeking behaviour 
• Alcoholics anonymous and 12 step programs are amazing tools
• The psychology of willpower 
• Changing your identity will helping changing your addictive behaviour 
• Is it possible to become someone that moderates their intake
• Physical movement and stress on the body could be the answer 
• Needing to get comfortable with your uncomfortable emotions
• Why privileged and wealthy nations have the highest rates of anxiety and depression
• What you can do you reset your dopamine pathways

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