Mucuna pruriens is nearly pure L-DOPA and can be taken as a supplement to increase dopamine levels, though it can cause side effects like crashing.

“It does make you feel really dopamine doubt, meaning it makes you feel a little high and really motivated and really energetic a lot like other drugs that will do that.”

“The two most common ones that are directly within the dopamine pathway are Macuna Pruriens which is actually a velvety bean whose contents are l-DOPA. Believe it or not, the content of this being is the precursor to dopamine. So Macuna Pruriens is sold over the counter at least in the United States. And it literally is the precursor to dopamine. Meaning if you take it, you will experience very large increases in dopamine. Those increases are transient and very, very intense.”

“Things like Mucuna pruriens, which are L-dopa, the immediate precursor to dopamine. Some of these will lead to somewhat of a crash in certain individuals.”

“but the effects of mercuna purines tend to be very much of the increasing the peak in dopamine and then very quickly dropping that peak in other words the peak trough phenomenon not for increasing Baseline levels of dopamine”