Are our hormones being hijacked by technology?

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Dopamine is the feel-good hormone. It's one of the primary drivers of our brain's reward system and gives us the feeling of wellbeing that we associate with pleasure. But as we all know, we can get too much of a good thing.

We’re living in a time of unprecedented access to high-reward, high-dopamine stimuli: drugs, food, news, gambling, shopping, gaming, texting, Facebooking, Instagramming, YouTubing, tweeting... And it's made all of us vulnerable to compulsive overconsumption.

Psychiatrist Dr. Anna Lembke runs the Addiction Medicine Dual Diagnosis Clinic at Stanford University and is the author of Dopamine Nation: Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence. She joins us in The Garden to explore the exciting new scientific discoveries that explain why the relentless pursuit of pleasure leads to pain, and how we can find the kind of contentment that sticks.