Andrew Huberman· PhD
Now you might not feel it as physical pain but the craving that you feel is both one part dopamine and one part, the mirror image of dopamine which is the pain or the craving for yet another piece of chocolate.
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Now you might not feel it as physical pain but the craving that you feel is both one part dopamine and one part, the mirror image of dopamine which is the pain or the craving for yet another piece of chocolate.
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as you repeatedly pursue a behavior and you repeatedly engage with a particular thing let's say you love running or you love chocolate as you eat a piece of chocolate believe it or not it tastes good and then there's a shift away from activation of dopamine and there are other chemicals that are released that trigger a low-level sense of pain