Ben Greenfield explains how porn addiction disrupts natural circadian rhythms and brain-state transitions by conditioning the brain to seek sexual dopamine. He argues many use porn/masturbation as a sleep aid, which prevents normal daytime focus and leads to productivity loss, anxiety, and repeated return-to-screen behavior driven by internal and external triggers.\n
If you're stuck in any brain speed, you're not using circadian rhythms. Circadian rhythms is. Your brain is supposed to flow throughout these states throughout the day, and then you would become naturally tired in the evening. But people use porn and masturbation as their sleep medication. Porn's ramping up. The lack of focus from the inside, those are internal triggers. Now you go to work and you can't produce. I had one client where he knew he was going to get fired because he had to meet a quota, and he just couldn't even think enough to meet the quota, which then, of course, his anxieties ramped up, jumping up. So basically, it's things from the outside, things from the inside that then trigger you to go back to the screen for dopamine. It's always like something's happening to me. I've conditioned my brain to get a lot of dopamine from sexuality to feel better.
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