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Dopamine(C8H11NO2)
- Dopamine is a neurotransmitter that sends signals from one neuron to another.
- Whatever your drug of choice, chocolate, nicotine, amphetamines, sex, social media, or shopping, dopamine is the final common pathway for all pleasurable, intoxicating and rewarding experiences.
- It is believed to be the most important neurotransmitter when it comes to the experience of pleasure, motivation and reward.
- But it isn’t ‘pleasure’ all the way because the same areas of the brain that process pleasure also process pain, and pleasure-pain work like a balance.
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Benefits of Dopamine Fasting:
1. Increases ability to focus
- With the help of dopamine fasting, you can increase your capability of focus.
- As it is related to the idea of less stress and distractions. This can happen by bringing some positive alterations to your everyday lifestyle.
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D-O-P-A-M-I-N-E Detox
D - Admit that you have addiction and collect DATA about it.
O - Understand the OBJECTIVE of your consumption addiction.
P - What is the PROBLEM consumption addiction is causing?
A - 30 days of ABSTINENCE.
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Pleasure-Pain Balance
• When that pleasure-pain balance tilts to the side of pain after the experience of pleasure, we experience feelings of discomfort, restlessness and irritability which can leave us unhappy and wanting to recreate the feeling of pleasure.
• ANY type of addiction makes us mal...
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Baseline Of Dopamine
• The only way to not get hooked to this pleasure-pain cycle is to ensure the time in between each ‘fix’ is long enough for our dopamine levels to drop back to our personal baseline of dopamine release.
• Research has found chocolate increases dopamine above baseline by about 50%, sex is ab...
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Power And Freedom
Dopamine detox and a shift to conscious consumption with due consideration of the consequences, giving you back some of the power and freedom you lost when you pledged yourself to the rat race and the status competition.
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You are probably very aware that the hard activities bring value to your life, and the others just momentary pleasure, so why do you still gravitate towards them? To understand this, we need to look at a neurotransmitter known as dopamine.
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Levels Of Dopamine Increase By Activity
- Chocolate - 1.5x increase above baseline
- Sex (pursuit and act) - 2x baseline
- Nicotine (when smoked) - 2.5x baseline
- Cocaine - 2.5x baseline
- Amphetamine - 10x baseline
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More Dopamine, Please!
- For humans, rats, and all animals , the desire and motivation to pursue sex arise largely from a neurochemical called dopamine.
- Dopamine amps up the centerpiece of the primitive part of the brain—the reward system. It’s where we experience cravings and pleasu...
Dopamine and Pleasure
It rewards our enjoyable experiences (eating tasty food or doing fun things), Motivates us to repeat these behaviors by creating a feeling of pleasure forming addictive patterns.
How dopamine works:
- Lnked to brain's reward system, released when we do something pl...
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