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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