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.
And now it should make perfect sense why if you take something or do something that leads to huge increases in dopamine afterward your baseline should drop because there isn't a lot of dopamine around to keep your baseline going.
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their baseline gets lower and lower because they're depleting dopamine more and more and more. And eventually what typically happens is they will stop getting dopamine release from that activity as well and then they drop into a pretty serious depression.
Many people do, however, and that's what we call addiction. When somebody pursues a drug or an activity that leads to huge increases in dopamine, and now you understand that afterward the baseline of dopamine drops because of depletion of dopamine, the readily releasable pool.
maintaining the steady Baseline levels it sounded like it's not so easy to deplete the Baseline unless you're really going after something that's either a substance that could really sort of increase your your your dopamine in combination maybe with other enjoyable things as well