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Why We Can’t Stop Scrolling, Eating, and Binging: Dr. Anna Lembke

Why We Can’t Stop Scrolling, Eating, and Binging: Dr. Anna Lembke

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“We’re living in this strange day and age when we’ve essentially bio-hacked all of the things that we do and really come to organize our lives around our little rewards, right? So, we wake up in the morning, we reach for our phones, we have our cup of coffee, we have our favorite muffin.”

Dr. Anna Lembke is a psychiatrist, professor, and medical director of addiction medicine at Stanford University. She’s the author of “Dopamine Nation: Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence.”

“This is, of course, the great paradox, that although we want to avoid pain, our efforts to avoid pain actually lead to more pain,” she says.

How have technology and modern living led to mass overconsumption in America?

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