Dopamine Doesn't Work Like That [CC]

If I see one more TikTok telling me that eating too much junk food is blowing out my dopamine receptors and causing irreversible damage I am going to lose my marbles
Anyway here's how dopamine actually works (:

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No, Mental Illness Isn’t “Caused” by Chemicals in the Brain (Dr. Devon Price) - https://drdevonprice.substack.com/p/n...
Is “P*rn Addiction” Real? Is Mast*rbat*on an Autistic Stim? (Dr. Devon Price) - https://drdevonprice.substack.com/p/i...
Dopamine: The Self-Improvement Mythos Of Our Age (Jesse Meadows) - https://sluggish.substack.com/p/dopam...
The Myth-Making of Dopamine Nation (Jesse Meadows) - https://sluggish.substack.com/p/the-m...
Who's Afraid of Fake Dopamine? (Jesse Meadows) - https://sluggish.substack.com/p/whos-...
Dopamine Doesn't Control You (Jesse Meadows) - https://sluggish.substack.com/p/dopam...
The False Claim That Addiction Is “All About the Dopamine” - https://filtermag.org/addiction-dopam...
Please stop calling dopamine the ‘pleasure chemical’ / It is possible to feel pleasure without dopamine - https://www.theverge.com/2018/3/27/17...
Dopamine fasting is Silicon Valley’s hot new trend. Is it backed by science? (Vox) - https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/20...
The dopamine theory of addiction: 40 years of highs and lows - https://www.uniad.org.br/wp-content/u...
UConn Researcher: Dopamine Not About Pleasure (Anymore) - https://today.uconn.edu/2012/11/uconn...

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