How to Reset Your Dopamine System & Overcome Addiction | Dr. Anna Lembke & Dr. Andrew Huberman

Dr. Anna Lembke and Dr. Andrew Huberman discuss how dopamine drives addiction, the pleasure pain balance, and how 30 days of abstinence resets reward pathways. Dr. Anna Lembke is chief of the Addiction Medicine Dual Diagnosis Clinic at Stanford and a leading expert in how to overcome addictions of all kinds. Dr. Andrew Huberman is a tenured professor of neurobiology and ophthalmology at Stanford University School of Medicine and host of the Huberman Lab podcast. Watch the full episode: https://youtu.be/wbJ_Q1xsDHg Show notes: https://www.hubermanlab.com/episode/overcome-addictions-and-obsessions-of-all-kinds-anna-lembke?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=social&utm_content=description+link *Timestamps* 00:00 Dopamine & Reward 00:29 Dopamine Levels by Substance 02:03 Pleasure-Pain Balance 03:56 Chronic Reward Deficit State 04:50 Self-Medication Myth 05:23 Restoring Homeostasis 06:14 Quitting One Substance at Once? 07:36 Clinical Treatment Approach 09:38 Quitting Paired Substances Together 10:34 30 Day Abstinence Experiment #HubermanLab #AnnaLembke #AndrewHuberman #Dopamine #Addiction #DopamineReset Disclaimer & Disclosures: https://www.hubermanlab.com/disclaimer