Andrew Huberman· PhD
for every bit of dopamine that's released there's another circuit in the brain that creates you can think of it as kind of like a downward deflection in pleasure so you engage in something you really want and there's an increase in pleasure and then there's a without you doing anything there's a mirror image of that which is a downward deflection and pleasure which we're calling pain so for every bit of pleasure there is a mirror image experience of pain