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US specialist prescribes dopamine fasting to Silicon Valley workers
Meal, music, screen, exercise, conversation, physical contact
"Social Media is a short-term feedback loop for dopamine stimulation"

UC San Francisco Medical Professor Cameron Sepha, writing to LinkedIn, stresses the continued growth of American media use time and argues that dopamine fasting is necessary. According to the 2018 Nielsen study, daily media usage for Americans 18 years of age and older continues to increase to 10 hours 30 minutes in the third quarter of 2017, 10 hours 47 minutes in the fourth quarter, and 11 hours 06 minutes in the first quarter of 2018. The environment is exposed to more and more dopamine stimuli.
Here's what Dopamin fasted, when Sepha prescribed to three mid-twenties co-founders of Silicon Valley's startup, SleepWell.

“Do not eat. It doesn't see any kind of screen, of course, smartphones and computers. Do not listen to music Do not exercise that requires concentration and energy. I do not work. Sex, of course, does not touch other people's bodies. Do not make eye contact with others. Don't talk unless you really need it. ”
Dopamine fasts are small, with light stretching, hanging around indoors, and light readings that don't concentrate. They spend time minimizing all sensory stimuli as much as possible. Jack City, the founder of Twitter, is a major celebrity who celebrates dopamine fasting.
Dopamine is a neurotransmitter in the brain that affects pleasure, desire, motivation, emotions, and motor control. Since its inception in 1958 by Dr. Arvid Karlsson of Sweden's National Heart Institute, it has been possible to medically explain many aspects of brain phenomena, including human emotions and mental processes. Not only did he discover the function of the neurotransmitter dopamine, he also won the 2000 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for finding causes and treatments for Parkinson's disease. Excess dopamine causes schizophrenia and too little can lead to depression. Parkinson's disease is the main cause of motor impairment caused by damage to neurons that produce dopamine. Dopamine is a neurotransmitter that is deeply involved in motivation and motivation, but it is essential for sustaining life, but it is also a substance that causes various addictions and pathological phenomena as it constantly seeks more pleasure and stimulation.
Digital services have sought to improve their services in order to increase user satisfaction and use time through tools and functions that can continuously and precisely measure user responses. Digital devices and services are the background of addiction beyond immersive use to a wide range of users.
Vice President at the beginning of Facebook Chamart Palihapitiya, who left the company in 2011, was referred to as a “short-term, dopamine-driven” initiative on Facebook in the November 2017 Stanford Graduate School of Business. feedback loop, and said, "Facebook is a tool for destroying the way society works." Sean Parker, an early Facebook investor, co-founder and founder of music sharing site Napster,

'Dopamine fasting' has three characteristics. One is that the practice of fasting has been extended to all areas that bring sensational stimuli, starting with reflection on the use of digital services aimed at human psychological instincts and vulnerabilities. Another is "periodic cleaning" to maintain the best mental state in an environment where attention, judgment and creativity are hindered by constant stimuli that require increasingly intense dopamine release. Third, the countermeasure is also “dopamine-based” in the competitive environment of digital services that seeks more and more dopamine release.