Andrew Huberman· PhD
Using Rx or supplement based approaches to raise dopamine BUT for those with already high baseline levels*, this can degrade performance.
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.
Using Rx or supplement based approaches to raise dopamine BUT for those with already high baseline levels*, this can degrade performance.
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if you looked more carefully there was an inverted U effect where some people and it depended on their working memory capacity were actually benefiting from the drug and then these other people who were let's say I can't remember as higher or lower were doing worse and there's a genetic component to that unsurprisingly dopamine Transporters play a role