Andrew Huberman· PhD
the higher the peak in dopamine and the faster the rise to that Peak the further below Baseline the dopamine drops after the drug wears off okay so there's pleasure then there's lack of pleasure ah but it's worse than that because it's not just lack of pleasure if you recall what we talked about a little bit earlier that drop below Baseline triggers the desire and the pursuit for what for more and so this sets in motion a vicious Loop where people start pursuing peaks in dopamine that can come very fast without much effort and that's one of the ways in which addictions start to take hold