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.
When you do or ingest certain things, your levels of dopamine will rise above baseline transiently. And depending on what you do or ingest, it will rise either more or less, and it will be very brief or a last a long time.
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Chocolate. They didn't look at milk versus dark chocolate. But chocolate will increase your baseline level of dopamine 1.5 times. Okay? So it's a pretty substantial increase in dopamine. It's transient.
Chocolate will increase your baseline level of dopamine 1.5 times. Okay? So, it's a pretty substantial increase in dopamine. It's transient. It goes away after a few minutes or even a few seconds.