Controlling Your Dopamine For Motivation, Focus & Satisfaction | Huberman Lab Podcast #39

This episode serves as a sort of “Dopamine Masterclass”. I discuss the immensely powerful chemical that we all make in our brain and body: dopamine. I describe what it does and the neural circuits involved. I explain dopamine peaks and baselines, and the cell biology of dopamine depletion. I include 14 tools for how to control your dopamine release for sake of motivation, focus, avoiding and combating addiction and depression, and I explain why dopamine stacking with chemicals and behaviors inevitably leads to states of underwhelm and poor performance. I explain how to achieve sustained increases in baseline dopamine, compounds that injure and protect dopamine neurons including caffeine from specific sources. I describe non-prescription supplements for increasing dopamine—both their benefits and risks—and synergy of pro-dopamine supplements with those that increase acetylcholine.

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Timestamps:
00: 00: 00 Introduction & Tool 1 to Induce Lasting Dopamine
00: 04: 48 Sponsors: Roka, InsideTracker, Headspace
00: 09: 10 Upcoming (Zero-Cost) Neuroplasticity Seminar for Educators
00: 09: 58 What Dopamine (Really) Does
00: 15: 30 Two Main Neural Circuits for Dopamine
00: 18: 14 How Dopamine Is Released: Locally and Broadly
00: 22: 03 Fast and Slow Effects of Dopamine
00: 25: 03 Dopamine Neurons Co-Release Glutamate
00: 28: 00 Your Dopamine History Really Matters
00: 30: 30 Parkinson’s & Drugs That Kill Dopamine Neurons. My Dopamine Experience
00: 36: 58 Tool 3 Controlling Dopamine Peaks & Baselines
00: 40: 06 Chocolate, Sex (Pursuit & Behavior), Nicotine, Cocaine, Amphetamine, Exercise
00: 46: 46 Tool 4 Caffeine Increases Dopamine Receptors
00: 49: 54 Pursuit, Excitement & Your “Dopamine Setpoint”
00: 56: 46 Your Pleasure-Pain Balance & Defining “Pain”
01: 00: 00 Addiction, Dopamine Depletion, & Replenishing Dopamine
01: 07: 50 Tool 5 Ensure Your Best (Healthy) Dopamine Release
01: 15: 28 Smart Phones: How They Alter Our Dopamine Circuits
01: 19: 45 Stimulants & Spiking Dopamine: Counterproductive for Work, Exercise & Attention
01: 22: 20 Caffeine Sources Matter: Yerba Mate & Dopamine Neuron Protection
01: 24: 20 Caffeine & Neurotoxicity of MDMA
01: 26: 15 Amphetamine, Cocaine & Detrimental Rewiring of Dopamine Circuits
01: 27: 57 Ritalin, Adderall, (Ar)Modafinil: ADHD versus non-Prescription Uses
01: 28: 45 Tool 6 Stimulating Long-Lasting Increases in Baseline Dopamine
01: 37: 55 Tool 7 Tuning Your Dopamine for Ongoing Motivation
01: 47: 40 Tool 8 Intermittent Fasting: Effects on Dopamine
01: 53: 09 Validation of Your Pre-Existing Beliefs Increases Dopamine
01: 53: 50 Tool 9 Quitting Sugar & Highly Palatable Foods: 48 Hours
01: 55: 36 Pornography
01: 56: 50 Wellbutrin & Depression & Anxiety
01: 58: 30 Tool 10 Mucuna Pruriens, Prolactin, Sperm, Crash Warning
02: 01: 45 Tool 11 L-Tyrosine: Dosages, Duration of Effects & Specificity
02: 05: 20 Tool 12 Avoiding Melatonin Supplementation, & Avoiding Light 10pm-4am
02: 07: 00 Tool 13 Phenylethylamine (with Alpha-GPC) For Dopamine Focus/Energy
02: 08: 20 Tool 14 Huperzine A
02: 10: 02 Social Connections, Oxytocin & Dopamine Release
02: 12: 20 Direct & Indirect Effects: e.g., Maca; Synthesis & Application
02: 14: 22 Zero-Cost & Other Ways To Support Podcast & Research

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