Dr. Trish Leigh Podcast
Porn has been shown to create underactivity in the frontal lobe and reward centers in the brain. Porn can increase your anxiety, depression, mood problems, strain your relationships, and even give you erectile dysfunction. Dr. Trish Leigh will teach you how porn can ruin your brain and what to do to heal it.
Episodes
238 episodes
Why Do I Keep Watching Pornography When I Don’t Want To? (Ep. 240)
Pornography cravings can become conditioned responses to learned cues such as time, location, emotional state, and device use. Through repetition, the brain can begin anticipating the expected reward before you consciously decide to seek pornog...
Why Pornography Feels More Exciting Than Real Sex | Miswired Desire (Ep. 239)
Can porn affect your erections and arousal during real sex? You may still have a strong sex drive and respond easily to porn, yet struggle to stay aroused, maintain an erection, or feel fully engaged with your partner.If porn works but ...
How Your Brain Actually Recovers From Pornography Addiction (Ep. 238)
Can your brain recover after years of pornography addiction? Even after quitting porn, cravings, low motivation, and old reward patterns can remain because your brain has spent years strengthening them.Still having porn cravings after q...
A Streak Is Not a Porn Recovery Plan (Ep. 237)
Why do you still crave porn after weeks of staying porn-free? A streak can track your progress, while your brain may still be responding to old triggers, dopamine, anticipation, and learned reward patterns.👉 Your streak tells you how lo...
Why Your Brain Wants Porn More Than It Likes It (Ep. 236)
Why Your Brain Wants Porn More Than It Likes ItHave you ever desperately wanted to watch porn, only to realize you weren’t even enjoying it that much?Your brain can want porn more than it likes it. Dopamine drives motivation, pr...
Episode #235: How to Rewire Your Brain After Porn Addiction | The Neuroscience of Recovery
Can your brain recover from porn addiction? Yes.Your brain is constantly changing through neuroplasticity—the same process that allowed pornography to strengthen unhealthy reward pathways is the same process that allows recovery.I...
Episode #234: The 4 Brain Loops Keeping You Hooked on Porn
If you keep going back to porn even though you want to stop, your brain may be running four powerful loops:🔁 Access — repeated cues like your phone, privacy, and late-night scrolling begin predicting porn.⚡ Stress — stress,...
Episode #233: Your Brain Predicts Porn Before You Choose It
Have you ever finished watching pornography and thought, "I don't even remember deciding to do that?"Your Brain Predicts Porn Before You Choose It 👉 That doesn't necessarily mean you're weak. Your brain may have learned to predict pornog...
Episode #232: Is Gooning Training Your Brain Away From Real Sex?
Porn still works. So why does real intimacy feel harder?You can get aroused alone, but with a partner, you lose focus, struggle to stay responsive, or worry whether your body will cooperate.Is Gooning Training Your Brain Away Fr...
Episode #231: Do This Before You Open Another Porn Tab (5-Step Emergency Protocol)
If you're about to open another porn tab... pause.The next 10 minutes matter more than you think.Most binges don't happen because you suddenly lose control. They begin because your brain predicts relief before you even click.
Episode #230: How Long Does Dopamine Take to Recover After Gooning? (Real Timeline)
How long does it actually take your brain to recover after gooning?7 days? 30 days? 90 days?Dopamine doesn’t suddenly “reset.” Recovery happens in stages as your brain adapts to reduced overstimulation and begins to respond different...
Episode #229: What Gooning Does To Your Brain | The Science of Porn Addiction and Dopamine Hijack
You open porn, planning to watch for a few minutes.Then hours disappear.It's not just a self-control problem. Repeated overstimulation trains your brain to crave higher dopamine, making focus, motivation, and real intimacy feel less ...
Episode #228: Can Retatrutide Help Addiction? The Science Behind Dopamine and Cravings
Most people think addiction is about the substance. Alcohol. Porn. Nicotine. Gambling. Food.It's not. It's about the brain.Every hit floods your reward system with dopamine, the pursuit chemical.Your baseline drops, life d...
Episode #227: Does Quitting Porn Increase Testosterone?
"I think my testosterone is low."Your drive isn't what it was. You don't feel like yourself.Here's what you're missing:It didn't start with your hormones. It started in your brain.When your brain gets overstimulated, it ...
Episode #226: How to Quit Porn Permanently
You've quit before.A week. A month. Even 90 days.So why do you keep ending up back where you started?Most people think they're trying to quit porn.But they're really trying to change a brain that learned to depend on it....
Episode #225 :Why Does Pornography Lower Relationship Satisfaction? The Neuroscience Explained
You love your partner.So why does a screen feel more exciting than real life?Most people assume it's a relationship problem.But what if it's a brain problem?The brain adapts to what it experiences most.Scrolling. Sho...
Episode #224: This One Habit Could Be Affecting Your Erections, Control & Pleasure
Why does it feel like something is off?Your erections aren't as consistent.Pleasure doesn't hit the same.You feel less in control than you used to.Most men blame testosterone, age, or hormones.But the habit affecting...
Episode #223: How Long Does It Take To Recover From A Porn Addiction?
You quit porn…But somehow you still feel off.Flat. Restless. Disconnected from real life.Because recovery is not just about stopping porn.It’s about dopamine regulation.Scrolling. Gaming.Sports betting. Const...
Episode #222: Why Online Poker Feels So Addictive (It’s Not Just Money)
Why does online poker feel impossible to stop?It’s not just the money.It’s the anticipation.The uncertainty.The feeling that the next hand could change everything.And online, the game never really ends.No stoppi...
Episode #221: How Sports Betting and Porn Affect Your Brain the Same Way
Why does real life feel boring after sports betting?It’s not just the betting. It’s the constant anticipation.The uncertainty. The emotional spikes.The feeling that something exciting would happen at any second.Over time...
Episode #220: Euphoria Changed Your Brain (Here’s How)
Why does real life sometimes feel flat after watching shows like Euphoria?It’s not just the explicit content.It’s the constant intensity.Shows like Euphoria flood the brain with emotion, novelty, chaos, dopamine, fantasy, te...
Episode #219: Why Nobody Is Having Sex Anymore & Why It Matters — Dr Trish Leigh
Something feels off…but you can’t explain itYou’re there…but not fully thereThe sex drive comes and goes.Your brain got used to constant stimulationso real moments feel quieter.Find out what’s actually ha...
Episode #218: Why You’re Not Fully Present in Your Relationship (It’s Not What You Think)
Why You’re Not Fully Present in Your Relationship (It’s Not What You Think)Something feels off… and you can’t explain it.You lose focus mid-conversation.Attraction comes and goes.You’re there, but not fully there.You...
Episode #217: The Porn Addiction Crisis No One Wants to Talk About
You feel it, even if you can’t explain it.You sit down to focus and your brain drifts. You want to be present with someone, but something feels slightly off. You try to push through it, thinking you just need more discipline.But...
Episode #216: Porn, Dopamine, and the System Training You Daily
Porn, Dopamine, and the System Training You DailyThat constant pull to switch, scroll, or check something keeps showing up, even when you want to stay present.Your brain is being trained every day by high stimulation, fast dopam...