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Cake day: December 11th, 2024

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  • I didn’t read that very thoroughly but it mostly seems to make the point that dopamine fasting is not a thing, because it’s a chemical our body produces directly.

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    While dopamine does rise in response to rewards or pleasurable activities, it doesn’t actually decrease when you avoid overstimulating activities, so a dopamine “fast” doesn’t actually lower your dopamine levels.

    The original intent behind the dopamine fast was to provide a rationale and suggestions for disconnecting from days of technology-driven frenzy and substituting more simple activities to help us reconnect us with ourselves and others.

    Basically you can’t really take a dopamine tolerance break as you can with drugs