Andrew Huberman· PhD
BUT the energetic lift of dopamine and related molecules like epinephrine is real.
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The evidence is convergent. Multiple independent sources reach the same conclusion, the underlying mechanism is well-characterized, and even the field's most cautious voices treat it as worth doing.
BUT the energetic lift of dopamine and related molecules like epinephrine is real.
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Because if you were able to access dopamine while in effort, dopamine has all these incredible properties of increasing the amount of energy in our body, and in our mind, our ability to focus by way of dopamines conversion into epinephrin.
What dopamine does is dopamine really colors the subjective experience of an activity to make it more pleasureful, to make it something that you want more of. Epinephrin is more about energy.
But the addition of dopamine to that chemical cocktail, if dopamine is released in the brain, well, then that epinephrin becomes one of excitement.
What dopamine does is dopamine really colors the subjective experience of an activity to make it more pleasureful to make it something that you want more of.