2025-04-13
25 分钟Our brain is essentially reeling in response to this fire hose of dopamine and then needs to down-regulate dopamine transmission to balance it out and get back to baseline levels.
Hi everyone, it's Rosie here.
Welcome back to Radio Headspace.
I'm so excited about today's conversation
because we're diving into something that affects all of us,
dopamine.
It's the brain chemical that drives motivation, pleasure, and reward.
It can also fuel addiction, anxiety.
and burnout.
And to help us make sense of all of this, I'm joined by Dr. Anna Lemke.
She's a psychiatrist, addiction specialist,
and the author of Dopamine Nation, Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence.
I'm so excited for you to hear this conversation.
So my name is Rosie.
I'm one of the meditation teachers here at Headspace.
And I personally have been following your work for a long while.
Danny told us that we got you on the show.
I was just beside myself.
I had a fangirl moment.
Oh, that's fair.