Andrew Huberman· PhD
Sex. Both the pursuit of sex and the act of sex increases dopamine two times. So it's a doubling above baseline.
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Sex. Both the pursuit of sex and the act of sex increases dopamine two times. So it's a doubling above baseline.
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sex does release dopamine and it increases dopamine levels about 100% so basically doubles them
Sex, both the pursuit of sex and the act of sex, increases dopamine two times.