Peter Attia· MD
now are there certain personalities that can get addicted to exercise absolutely um we do see this in clinical care and I think we also see it you know again just in our culture we've also drug aied exercise made it more potent made it possible to do it in more extreme conditions um we've social media fied it so that now people are comparing themselves not just to their immediate but to people all over the world we've Quantified it down to the nth degree we're constantly measuring ourselves our heartbeats our breathing our sleep um many people actually get kind of addicted to those numbers or quantifications now they're pursuing a certain numerical outcome dopamine is probably ultimately quite sensitive to numeric um and when we intervene for an exercise addiction we intervene similar to the way that we intervene for other addictions we ask people ble to abstain from that particular exercise for a period of time try to reset reward Pathways and then when they go back to using using in a way that's not harmful or self or other destructive