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How to Control Your Sense of Pain & Pleasure

June 19, 2025 · 32 min · 15 chapters

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Chapters

  1. 0:00Pain & Pleasure
  2. 0:39Skin, Appetitive vs Aversive Behaviors
  3. 2:10Skin, Neurons & Brain
  4. 4:46Brain Interpretation, Homunculus, Two-Point Discrimination Test
  5. 7:49Pain & Pleasure, Subjective Interpretation
  6. 9:58Tool: Pain & Expectation
  7. 11:31Pain Threshold
  8. 13:09Heat & Cold, Tool: Moving into Cold or Hot Environments
  9. 15:00Subjective Pain, Psychosomatic, Fibromyalgia, Whole Body Pain, Acetyl-L-carnitine
  10. 19:24Acupuncture, Electroacupuncture, Pain Management
  11. 22:07Red Heads & Pain Threshold, Endorphins
  12. 24:17Improving Pain Threshold, Dopamine
  13. 25:30Pleasure, Dopamine, Serotonin; Depression, Anti-depressants
  14. 29:41Pleasure & Pain Balance, Dopamine, Addiction
  15. 31:38Recap & Key Takeaways

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