If ‘dopamine fasting’ means hiding the remote control, finding it again might be a bit tricky

Apparently these days it’s not enough to switch off your phone and laptop; you have to switch everything off. Hmm. I’m rapidly going off this idea

OK kids, hang onto your hats – we’re about to get a new craze and it might be just the distraction we need while the country slides into yet another month of hyper insanity.

The new thing is “dopamine fasting”. As anyone with access to Google will know, dopamine is one of the chemicals in the brain that transmits pleasure, be that from doing a bit of yoga, finding a leftover sausage under the grill, or cleaning the grout in your bathroom with that special bit of kit you bought off the internet.

Typically, because we live in a hairshirt society and can’t be left to get on with having a good time in case we get used to it, the techies in Silicon Valley have taken to “dopamine fasting” in an effort to reset the chemicals in their brain to accept less stimulation.