Episode #198: Neuroscientist Explains the Dopamine Hijack How Modern Life Miswires You

Every time you scroll, your brain learns one thing: distraction feels safer than stillness. In this episode, Dr. Trish Leigh explains the real dopamine hijack happening in modern life, the overstimulating, engineered world that keeps your nervous system running on urgency, novelty, and noise. As part of No Numb November, you will learn why ancient dopamine wiring struggles in a saturation-based world, how the scroll–spike–crash loop reshapes your reward circuits, why peace feels “boring” an...