Dr. Anna Lembke

So we know that that exercise is actually...

injurious to cells.

So at the cellular level, exercise is toxic.

But we also know exercise is really good for us.

So how does it work?

What's probably happening is that the body senses minor injury in response to exercise and then starts to upregulate, again, our own feel-good neurotransmitters, including dopamine.

Okay.

The moment that you wake up actually begins with the night before.

Oh, okay.

Where you make a plan because if...

We find ourselves choosing between pleasure and pain.

We will always choose pleasure unless we have anticipated that moment and put in self-binding strategies that put a barrier between ourselves and our drug of choice so that we can press the pause button between desire and consumption.

And that plan will include having no digital devices in the bedroom or within easy reach.

It will include making a plan for starting your day with pain.

Now that I know sounds- Give me some examples of pain.

First of all, just getting out of bed.

Okay.

Okay.

When you wake up, get, I mean, it can be hard to just get out of bed.

Very.