What makes exercise addictive | Anna Lembke and Peter Attia

Get the 5 Tactics in My Longevity Toolkit and my weekly newsletter here (free): Watch the full episode: Become a member to receive exclusive content: This clip is from episode 321 ‒ Dopamine and addiction: navigating pleasure, pain, and the path to recovery with Anna Lembke, M.D. In this clip, they discuss: - Endorphins as the brain’s natural opioids released during exercise - The pleasure-pain balance and dopamine’s role in exercise - The risk of exercise addiction, driven by social comparison and performance tracking - And more -------- About: The Peter Attia Drive is a deep-dive podcast focusing on maximizing longevity, and all that goes into that from physical to cognitive to emotional health. With over 90 million episodes downloaded, it features topics including exercise, nutritional biochemistry, cardiovascular disease, Alzheimer’s disease, cancer, mental healt