Do I Really Need to Worry About Too Much Dopamine?

Dopamine underpins all addictions. So, the simple version is, if you don’t vigilantly monitor the things that could stimulate dopamine in your brain, you’ll end up overindulging in an array of everyday things, from sex to smartphones to sweets. That’s the soft version of the message. The unalloyed version of the message says that these things are not only habit-forming but addictive “like a drug” and that we’re not actually addicted to heroin or alcohol. What we’re really addicted to is the dopamine “hit” we receive from the anticipation of these things. <a href="https://joeduncan2.medium.com/do-i-really-need-to-worry-about-too-much-dopamine-19f9ea015371">Read More</a>