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I recently read Dopamine Nation by Anna Lemke, an addiction psychiatrist at Stanford University.
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I recently read Dopamine Nation by Anna Lemke, an addiction psychiatrist at Stanford University.
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Dopamine dictates the quality of your life.
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If you keep dopamine levels in your brain above a certain level, what you could call your feel-good baseline, life is full of joy and you're driven to learn,
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grow, and get things done.
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But if your dopamine level drops below the feel-good baseline, you feel anxious and find it hard to focus.
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And if you stay below the dopamine baseline, you'll lack the motivation to do anything.
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Studies show
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that mice who have their dopamine levels depleted are not motivated enough to eat food directly in front of them
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and eventually starve to death.
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One way to raise your dopamine level is to seek pleasure by checking your phone for interesting messages, eating your favorite comfort food,
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or enjoying a sugary beverage.
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But the dopamine spike you get from pleasure is quickly followed by a dopamine crash
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that keeps you below your feel-good baseline for an extended period of time.
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In other words, when you pursue pleasure, you get pain.
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Picture a pain-pleasure seesaw in your mind.
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When you jump on the pleasure side, your brain hires gremlins to jump on the pain side to balance out the seesaw.
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Since we live in an age of abundance and have easy access to pleasure, we build up the gremlins on the pain side.
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This dynamic explains why people in rich countries with access to constant pleasure have the highest rates of suicide, depression, and physical pain.
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If you want to get your gremlins off the pain side and regain a baseline level of motivation, there are only two long-term solutions.
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Pursue pain or abstain.
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Anna Lemke says, Pressing on the pain side of the balance can lead to its opposite, pleasure.
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Unlike pressing on the pleasure side, the dopamine that comes from pain is indirect and potentially more enduring.
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When you pursue intermittent pain, you startle the gremlins camping out on the pain side of the pleasure-pain seesaw
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and get them to jump over to the pleasure side.
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There are three ways you can do this.
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First, turn down the temperature on the gremlins by plunging your body into an ice bath
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or enduring a cold shower for several minutes.
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The initial shock you experience will be followed by a gradual 200% rise in dopamine, which is equivalent to the rise in dopamine people experience by snorting cocaine.
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But unlike cocaine, you don't get the massive dopamine deficit afterward and endure a period of depression.
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Method number two, turn up the temperature on the gremlins by vigorously exercising and sweating for several minutes.
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Voluntary exercise is shown to lead to a gradual 100 to 200 percent increase in dopamine.
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Method number three, briefly starve the gremlins by intermittent fasting, that is consuming only water and electrolytes, for 16 to 20 hours a day.
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Your energy will paradoxically rise at the tail end of the fast, and you will get tremendous pleasure from simple foods like broccoli and blueberries when you break the fast.
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Abstaining is intermittent dopamine fasting, meaning you avoid dopamine spikes for a period of time, so the gremlins get bored and leave the pain side of your pleasure-pain seesaw.
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A typical dopamine fast includes refraining from chocolate or foods you crave, like ice cream and fast food, refraining from energy drinks and dopamine-boosting drugs like cocaine and methamphetamines,
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abstaining from immersive video games and mobile apps like TikTok, YouTube, or Twitter, abstaining from pornography, abstaining from gambling and sports betting, and abstaining from drinking and partying.
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During a dopamine fast, you only engage in low-stimulating activities until your brain can reset its dopamine levels
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and you no longer feel miserable.
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But if you have a compulsive behavior that has negative consequences, then you need to abstain from that behavior for 30 days.
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For Anna Lemke, that meant not reading romance novels at night for 30 days.
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For myself, it meant not checking stock prices throughout the day.
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Abstaining for 30 days gives the brain enough time to reset its reward circuits and allow your withdrawal symptoms to subside.
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Lemke has created the Dopamine Guide to help you and I get through a 30-day dopamine fast.
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The DOP in dopamine will provide you with the necessary motivation to start your dopamine fast.
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The A stands for abstain, and the M-I-N-E will provide you with the necessary motivation to sustain your dopamine fast.
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D stands for data.
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When you collect data about your behavior, you might be shocked to learn how bad your addiction is.
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Suppose you have an addiction to sugary soda drinks.
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If you record the amount of sugar you consume in a single week and learn that you ingest 700 grams a week, which is 80 pounds of sugar a year,
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you might spark a feeling of disgust, which will motivate you to abstain from soda for 30 days.
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O stands for objective.
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When most people recall their original objective, they realize how far off track they've gotten.
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A girl in the book who was addicted to smoking weed started smoking weed to help reduce her anxiety, but then she needed to smoke weed just to feel normal.
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If you happen to be addicted to sugary soda drinks.
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You may have started drinking soda to raise your energy and relieve boredom, but now you'd need to consume soda just to sustain a normal energy level.
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The P stands for problem.
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The problem with all addictive behaviors is they enslave you by making you crave the substance or activity just to feel normal.
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What's more, addictions gradually erode the relationships you care about most.
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In the case of the girl who was addicted to weed, her weed smoking led to constant fighting with her parents.
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The M stands for mindfulness.
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If you use the urge to engage in a compulsive behavior as a trigger to practice mindfulness
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and get curious about where the impulse is coming from in your body, the act of abstaining will no longer feel like torture because curiosity is a delightful state of mind.
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The I stands for insight.
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Anna Lemke says, I have seen again and again in clinical care, and in my own life,
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how the simple exercise of abstaining from our drug of choice for at least four weeks gives clarifying insight into our behaviors.
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Insight that is simply not possible while we continue to use.
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The girl in the book who abstained from weed told Lemke, the first few days were bad.
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I felt blah.
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I threw up on the second day.
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It was insane.
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I never throw up.
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That's when I realized I was withdrawing, and that motivated me to keep going with abstinence
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because it was the first piece of evidence I had that I was really addicted.
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The N stands for next steps.
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What will you do after your 30-day dopamine fast is over?
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If you create a plan to enjoy the behavior that you're abstaining from in a moderated way after the 30-day abstinence, you'll be more motivated to complete your dopamine fast.
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If, for example, you're abstaining from soda drinks, you could give yourself the option to enjoy one soda on Sunday while watching sports.
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If you're abstaining from smoking weed, you could restrict yourself to just one joint with a friend every Saturday evening.
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And the E in dopamine stands for experiment.
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After the dopamine fast is over and you experiment with moderation, you might have a relapse and realize the addiction is too powerful.
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At this point, you must resolve to stop the behavior for good, and be like the alcoholic who simply does not drink alcohol.
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In the end, if you don't get pleasure from simple things, and you lack the motivation to get anything done,
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start pursuing pain or abstaining.
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Pursue pain by lowering the temperature of your baths and showers, increasing your internal temperature with exercise, and giving your body an extended break from food every day.
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Abstain from highly pleasurable activities or compulsive behaviors by following Lemke's dopamine guide.
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Collect data, recall your objective, and acknowledge the problem to start your dopamine fast.
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Then focus on mindfulness, insights, next steps, and a period of experimentation so that you're motivated to complete your dopamine fast.
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By pursuing pain or abstaining, you can reset the pleasure-pain balance in your brain and restore your baseline motivation.
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That was the core message that I gathered from Dopamine Nation by Anna Lemke.
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This book will give you the tools to regain a sense of joy and get control of compulsive behavior.
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I highly recommend it.
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If you would like a one-page PDF summary of insights that I gathered from this book, just click the link below and I'd be happy to email it to you.
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And as always, thanks for watching and have yourself a productive week.
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