Andrew Huberman· PhD
Much in the same way a drug wouldn't work for somebody who takes it repeatedly because their baseline of dopamine is dropping.
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Much in the same way a drug wouldn't work for somebody who takes it repeatedly because their baseline of dopamine is dropping.
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that when you experience something or you crave something really desirable, really exciting to you, very pleasurable. What happens afterwards is your baseline level of dopamine drops.
I do invite you to try removing multiple sources of dopamine release or what used to be multiple sources of dopamine release from activities that you want to continue to enjoy, or that you want to enjoy more.
the energy the dopamine system was designed for foraging for all sorts of things, food, so people that overindulge food or seek out food, sex, people that overindulge in these things. Those things, and again this sort of leans to Eastern philosophy a bit but, there's Western neuroscience or neuroscience we should just say to support it, you start to deplete these dopamine systems. The baseline starts to drop.