For the past few weeks, Nick Anderson has been out of whack. The Pennsylvania musician and program specialist at an early education center had been feeling anxiety and restlessness about his life, ...

Feel like your brain is in need of a reboot? If you say that in front of someone who is hip to the latest wellness trends, they might suggest you go on a “dopamine fast." It's a thing. “Dopamine ...

Most people today know a dopamine detox or dopamine fast as a quick cure-all for their mental health problems. This is how it typically works: Step 1. An individual accrues a number of bad lifestyle ...

More people are trying out a “dopamine fast.” It's essentially giving up something for a period of time that brings you pleasure. You're supposed to take that extra time to write, meditate or exercise ...

From microdosing psychedelics to days-long fasts to morning ice water plunges, Silicon Valley is known for going to whacky extremes to pursuit of higher performance and better health. And it appears ...

Everything was going really well for the founders of SleepWell, a sleep analysis startup. Women wanted to talk to them; investors wanted to invest; their new site got traffic; phones were buzzing; ...

In his viral LinkedIn article, Dr. Cameron Sepah proposed dopamine fasting as an "antidote to our overstimulated age." To practice this method, the faster abstains from "behaviors that trigger strong ...

Researchers at McGill University have uncovered a surprising twist in how dopamine affects movement, overturning a ...