How to Break Free from Dopamine Culture

past, we’d pick up a self-help book or seek out a therapist, who might or might not address our nutritional deficiencies. These approaches might have been fine a decade ago, before the major changes to our environment and food supply, light pollution, and the psychological impact of social media began affecting our daily behavior. However, our preh

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Digital health management, which historically focused on detoxing and limiting screen time, is now evolving with prescriptive doses of content for mental and emotional nourishment. “The potential dangers of indiscriminate content consumption are not reliant simply on the volume or frequency of exposure,” Moskowitz wrote in a May 2020 Fast Company a... See more

Our dopamine economy, or what historian David Courtwright has called “limbic capitalism,” is driving this change, aided by transformational technology that has increased not just access but also drug numbers, variety, and potency.