Season 2 Episode #21 DOPAMINE NATION with Dr. Anna Lembke!

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Season 2 Episode # 21 Dr. Anna Lembke coming from Palo Alto, California

You can find Dr. Lembke via her website annalembke.com

Dr. Lembke is professor of psychiatry at Stanford University School of Medicine and chief of the Stanford Addiction Medicine Dual Diagnosis Clinic. A clinician scholar, she has published more than a hundred peer-reviewed papers, book chapters, and commentaries. She sits on the board of several state and national addiction-focused organizations, has testified before various committees in the United States House of Representatives and Senate, keeps an active speaking calendar, and maintains a thriving clinical practice.

In 2016, she published Drug Dealer, MD – How Doctors Were Duped, Patients Got Hooked, and Why It’s So Hard to Stop.  Drug Dealer was highlighted in the New York Times as one of the top five books to read to gain an understanding of the opioid epidemic. 

Dr. Lembke recently appeared on the Netflix documentary The Social Dilemma, an unvarnished look at the impact of social media on our lives.  Her most recent book, Dopamine Nation: Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence was an instant New York Times Bestseller, explores how to moderate compulsive overconsumption in a dopamine-overloaded world.  

TOTD – “It is not our perfection, but our willingness to work together to remedy our mistakes that creates the intimacy we crave.”  Dr. Anna Lembke

In this episode:

What was life like growing up?

Appreciated your vulnerability in the book with sharing your story…

In preparing for this episode, I listened to you on another show and you mentioned you are most proud of your children.   What did you mean specifically? 

What are your Life’s Essential Ingredients?

Pleasure and pain pathway and the influence of dopamine 

Neurotransmitters  

SELF-BINDING as a barrier, please explain

Leisure hours projected to be 7.2 hours per day by 2040

HORMESIS – studies that show the beneficial effects of administering small to moderate doses of painful stimuli – live example, MIKE HAS a thumb tact he is going to continually poke himself with as Dr. Lembke guides us on the benefits of Mike’s actions

Tolerance to the impact of 24/7 dopamine - 

Living in a world of abundance with 24/7 access to Dopamine, how do you suggest we maintain homeostasis?

DOPAMINE FAST

Legacy

Thanks for listening and enjoy the show!