By Lissa Rankin, M.D. — 2020
Perhaps you think psychics and intuitives are “woo-woo” gypsies who look at crystal balls and stroke crystals. But what if you’re an intuitive and you don’t even realize it?
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New science tells us how to better manage our addictions.
Why is it so hard to keep off the app if you have decided you are done with Facebook? Because the platform taps into our societal needs and biological drives to keep us coming back for more, experts say.
According to addiction expert Dr Anna Lembke, our smartphones are making us dopamine junkies, with each swipe, like and tweet feeding our habit. So how do we beat our digital dependency?
We sat down with Dr. Lembke to talk to her about why the things we turn to to feel better may actually be doing more harm than good, and what we can do instead.
“People treat intuition like it’s a dirty word, but it’s actually one of the body’s survival mechanisms,” says Dr. Antoine Bechara.
As a science journalist whose niche spans neuroscience, immunology, and human emotion, I knew at the time that it didn’t make scientific sense that inflammation in the body could be connected to — much less cause — illness in the brain.
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