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MBPP EP. 618 - Food & Pornography Are Just As Addictive as Drugs ft. Anna Lembke

Mark Bell's Power Project

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The Role of Free Time in Depression

Dopamine Nation is an effort to understand why rates of depression have increased 50% worldwide in the last 30 years. The author's hypothesis is that we are bombarding our dopamine reward pathway with too much reward. In order to compensate for that, our brains have downregulated our own dopamine production and transmission. This may make us more depressed because we don't have enough hardship in our lives,. We were not evolutionarily designed for this hyper convenient world.

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