Andrew Huberman· PhD
what dopamine seems to be important for with respect to food is two things um one is the motivation to engage in work to get food particularly when it's high levels of effort so um if you ask a mouse to press a lever to get a pallet of food uh if it doesn't have any dopamine it won't do it and if it has low levels of dopamine it'll just work a little bit so you dopamine is important for sort of energizing action and and motivating you to engage in hard tasks