{"id":216931,"date":"2020-03-18T15:50:25","date_gmt":"2020-03-18T22:50:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/?p=216931"},"modified":"2020-03-19T13:11:47","modified_gmt":"2020-03-19T20:11:47","slug":"dopamine-resistance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/2020\/03\/18\/dopamine-resistance\/","title":{"rendered":"Dopamine Resistance"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/gettingstronger.org\/2019\/10\/retraining-the-limbic-brain-to-overcome-obesity-and-addiction\/\">Dopamine Resistance<\/a> &#8212; an interesting theory about addiction and cravings. Not just food, but smartphone\/internet addiction, video game addiction, porn addiction, drug addiction, coffee addiction, <a href=\"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/2020\/03\/17\/why-i-dont-follow-the-news\/\">news addiction<\/a>, etc.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Strategies:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Intermittent fasting<\/li><li>Avoid environmental cues which &#8216;trigger&#8217; the undesired addictive behavior. <\/li><li>Stop consuming sugar (natural or fake), snacks, desserts, etc.<\/li><li>To extend fasting period in the day, do strenuous exercise or have a strong cup of black coffee. <\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">&#8216;Addiction&#8217; isn&#8217;t inherently bad or evil.<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;m addicted to having fun, creating, walking, lifting weights, coffee, etc. To me, the notion of &#8216;addiction&#8217; shouldn&#8217;t be a moralized one. Rather, it is all about YOUR personal life goals. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Think about your <a href=\"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/2020\/03\/16\/what-is-your-desired-outcome\/\">desired outcome<\/a>, then work backwards.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dopamine Resistance &#8212; an interesting theory about addiction and cravings. Not just food, but smartphone\/internet addiction, video game addiction, porn addiction, drug addiction, coffee addiction, news addiction, etc. Strategies: Intermittent fasting Avoid environmental cues which &#8216;trigger&#8217; the undesired addictive behavior. Stop consuming sugar (natural or fake), snacks, desserts, etc. To extend fasting period in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":216509,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-216931","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-posts"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/932C51D4-6658-4CE9-991D-3DE87B05703C.jpeg?fit=1668%2C2224&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216931","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=216931"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216931\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":216938,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216931\/revisions\/216938"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/216509"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}