The headline is broadly defensible, but the qualifications matter. Effect sizes vary by population, the strongest claims rest on shorter trials, and credible voices push back on how it's typically framed.
A good way to think about dopamine & managing it, is that it is like a wave pool. The height & frequency of the peaks (set forth by motivated states, behaviors or compounds that increase dopamine) determine if it can be maintained or it sloshes out, leaving the baseline lower.
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remember with continual engagement in a dopamine spiking Behavior a behavior that increases dopamine Peaks the height of those Peaks remember gets lower and lower and lower especially in a short amount of time and then drops below Baseline
whereas if you have smaller waves or less frequent big waves well then the Baseline will stay relatively constant so let's think about dopamine Peaks and bass lines and let's remember that for every Peak there's a trough
most of us have dopamine neurons that can readily release dopamine and do so at what I would call a tonic level it's kind of what we could just refer to as a baseline level of dopamine neurons firing in the background just firing off Action potentials electrical signals releasing dopamine into the various circuits that they're trying to modulate then there are what we can call for sake of this conversation dopamine Peaks and dopamine troughs which are increases in dopamine release that ride on top of that Baseline and that influence that Baseline