Dopamine

“Neuroscience shows you're burning the exact dopamine your brain needs for execution. It can't tell the difference.”

“The brain only releases the dopamine of momentum once you move. The brain's like, you don't get this before you do the thing. So if you're waiting for the feeling to show up before you begin, that's biologically impossible.”

“Carnegie Mellon scientists discovered that when you ask someone a question, especially an open-ended one, their brain releases dopamine.”

“Capitalism, I think will always reward whatever hacks your brain to give you reward immediately in dopamine. And that means that's why there was shift to shorter video. It's an easier hack for the brain.”

“When you do when you do cocaine, usually your dopamine goes up by about 250%.”

“There's research that says that when you swear curse, it actually helps you reduce anxiety. When you curse, you release a flood of neurochemicals that blunt out the neurochemicals associated with anxiety, cortisol being a big one. So you get a big dopamine hit…”

“Dopamine is the most important neurotransmitter for the experience of pleasure, reward, and motivation. It's not the only neurotransmitter involved in that process, but it is the common pathway for all reinforcing substances and behaviors. Anything that's rein…”

“Well, it was originally thought that dopamine was primarily related to the experience of pleasure, euphoria, getting high, but a series of important experiments suggest that dopamine may be even more important for motivation, that is our willingness to do the …”

“The other thing is that that's very important here is that once people start to become addicted, what's salient is not so much the release of dopamine when they're getting high or experiencing pleasure, but it's actually the decrease in dopamine in between or …”

“There's also a little mini spike in dopamine when they see the light, so just anticipating the drug gets us a little bit high, but the really interesting thing is that right after that little increase in dopamine from the light, we actually go below baseline l…”

“That's not a placebo effect. That's a real effect of the release of cortisol and adrenaline into your body. The release of dopamine is controlled by light, powerful neuromodulator that makes you feel good.”

“There's a paper published in the European Journal of Physiology. It showed that there's a 2.5 X huge increase in dopamine release, very long lasting. 2.5 X is the amount of dopamine that's triggered by the use of cocaine, but the difference is cocaine has a ve…”

“Now about 10% of people have a genetic predisposition to get a big dopamine increase from alcohol.”

“Basically there's something about like the prefrontal cortex and how gratitude actually releases dopamine and it's proven to make you more motivated and happy.”

“There are some interesting data published showing that these Yoga Nidra Meditations, if you will, are can upregulate some of the neurotransmitters in the brain, including dopamine that make you prepared for action.”

“The ancient struggle was scarcity. You know, the ancient struggle was we just didn't have enough. We didn't have enough food. We didn't have enough water. We didn't have enough you know, access to medicine, entertainment, whatever. And the modern struggle is a…”

“So there's actually a functional loss in your ability to imagine the future. And then when you do imagine the future, even if you're thinking about things that normally you get, would get you excited, your brain is basically refusing to fire up The pathways th…”

“And broadly speaking, nootropics work in three sort of main pathways. One main pathway is sort of increasing the different neurotransmitters levels in your brain, and these can be sort of acetylcholine or dopamine, things that are associated with learning and …”