Dr. Giulia Enders

We forget simple things about our bodies.

We don't use them anymore.

Or we have to have them explained to us in a new way to actually make use of them again.

Well, usually doctors have so many other things to take care of.

But those things are coming more and more into regular Western medicine.

And actually, one of the teams that researched this so well is a medical team from the University of Harvard.

So I think it just always takes a little bit of time until it trickles to all the places.

What we see with the reward system in the brain is that there's actually multiple cells releasing different substances when we have a positive, rewarding, good feeling.

And oftentimes people know a little bit about dopamine, but that is really not all there is.

We see that there's also cells that may give us this, ah, this nice, ah, I'm full, but I don't need any more food feeling, for example.

Or, oh, I did sports and it feels so good to lay on the couch.

And that is a rewarding feeling.

But that is not a rewarding feeling that makes you want more.

You won't go, ah, I want to do four more hours of hiking now.

No, because you're good, you know.

And learning to differentiate, ah,

um lure rewards like let's say you're scrolling but you don't really feel ah this is wonderful i can stop now you always will just feel like i want more next next next next and this is because it activates only one type of cells the dopamine ones that will then release dopamine and then it will fall down again and this falling down is not a nice feeling so what do you do you constantly you know click the next scroll down because it doesn't give you a nice ah

And for example, just knowing this about your cells, it gave me a little bit of empathy because I realized, oh, I'm draining my dopamine cells.

They have to squeeze out another dopamine, another dopamine.

And that's actually not so nice.