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Dec 3, 2019

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Optimize Me

Everyone is Wrong About Dopamine Fasting

Avoiding pleasurable activities to reset the brain’s ‘reward chemical’ sounds great. Too bad that’s not how dopamine works.

Welcome to Optimize Me, a new Elemental column exploring (and fact-checking) the weirdest self-improvement trends.

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