Ep. 539: Susan Peirce Thompson with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio
Michael Covel's Trend Following
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The Evolution of Dopamine Downregulation in the Brain
The reward circuitry in the brain is deep, deep, deep within the brain. We feed that part of the brain a donut or a few minutes on euporn and we're getting a dopamine release there that's just orders of magnitude bigger than that area of the brain was designed to handle. The whole purpose of those circuits evolutionarily is to motivate our behavior to go have us go do something or get something. If you stop eating sugar, if you try to stop watching pornography, now what happens is you do not have enough stimulation on board to feel normal. Give me the absence of stimulation in that case absolutely feels like a dearth of pleasure, it feels desperate. It feels desperate
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