Dopamine Detox and Pseudoscience

There is a narrative wave in popular psychology and neuroscience that has taken a small amount of very basic science and twisted it into a fantastic narrative of feast and famine.  Its central character is dopamine.  The Dopamine Detox also known as dopamine fasting is a pseudoscientific treatment that at best illustrates how magnificently strange and evidence-less some claims about dopamine can be.Please leave feedback at https://www.psydactic.com or send any comments to [email protected] and readings (when available) are posted at the end of each episode transcript, located at psydactic.buzzsprout.com.  All opinions expressed in this podcast are exclusively those of the person speaking and should not be confused with the opinions of anyone else.  We reserve the right to be wrong.  Nothing in this podcast should be treated as individual medical advice.