This clip is from the Huberman Lab episode "Leverage Dopamine to Overcome Procrastination & Optimize Effort.” The full episode can be found on KZfaq here: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/gZOEipV0zdbeZJ8.html

Nothing is more meta than having a dopamine system that makes you crave learning about the dopamine system.

Had to click on this as soon as I got the notification - for that dopamine hit

Whenever I feel stressed, I eat junk food and couples of minutes later, I feel very bad and guilty about it and the vicious cycles continued. Now I am understanding the problem of my eating disorder to solve the problem.

amazing on how the dopamine cyclic peaks and trough work

It’s so weird watching these videos and then looking at my behavior in the past and seeing that he described it perfectly. Or comparing abstract ideas without trying like when he said that dropping below baseline is what creates the drive to go out and get the thing you desired. It made me think about Kurt Cobain making music and that girl I’ve been chasing and that this chemical process has been with us since the dawn of time and is responsible for everything we’ve created. The rise and fall of civilizations. Godspeed.

This video came up as a suggestion...great explanation of dopamine peaks and valleys. So interesting how as you explained when you wanted sandwich, but it was the drop that makes you want to order it .. then the taste of sandwich determines the dopamine increase etc. And it is also the same for anything . So interesting thank you

Corresponding to the craving there will be a sensation in the body Actually sensation arising from the unconscious is causing the craving If u can watch the sensation with awareness that is impermanent craving will subside

So is it a dopamine spike or a dopamine trough that motivates you to pursue something?

Thank you so much for these! I had neuro Lyme disease for years, couldn’t walk after being an elite athlete - springboard diver, teammates went to the Olympics - and I didn’t feel like my dopamine was normal afterward, and I found research that it can be depleted wouldn’t be the right word, but the system can be off after Lyme disease, forget if reuptake or sending out - had ADHD to begin with - psychosis in my family & too with muscles and fibromyalgia. We are learning more! I wonder with long COVID, any major illness, like euthyroid sick syndrome believe the term for thyroid and chronic illness - if your body lowers to rest?

It turns out that in the case of a negative experience, when the subsequent peak of dopamine is lower than the previous one, you need to stop in your desires, give time for the neural connections to be rebuilt and the negative experience to be forgotten, and then, after a time break, try to crave and pursuit it again.

My husband is cluster headache since 17 years old. He takes preventatives for this. I believe judging by his symptoms he has also ADHD. Has depression, had anxiety (this is still very close to the surffice). He can hardly get out of the bed, if he goes to supermarket he feels he is going to pass out. He can't do anything, all the symptoms are the same as dopamine deficiency. Is getting Concerta (similiar to Adderal in US) if he gets diagnosed with ADHD the only way? Is there possibility to fix this without this type of medication? He is exhausted, craves chocolate, coffee, kombucha, posting on Fb to get that little bit of dopamine. His body aches often like a flue. It seems always absolutely terrible during the months when before he had preventatives for his cluster headaches, he would have these headaches. He has this exhaustion all year round but peaking in the summer and in the winter. People around us don't understand and use the typical comments that he has to move etc. That itself feels very isolating. If he does move (doesn't have to be a lot) he is bedridden for at least 48 hr. He can't continue like this and has been thinking for a while to end it all. The reason why he hasn't done it yet, is because of me and his Mum. He is taking SSRi for depression and Rivotril for anxiety. Sometomes he gets a lift for moments when he laughs but crushes down soon after.

My mood picks right up when I know chocolate is coming. I get giddy.

Hello Sir .The drop of dopamine below the baseline after we desire for something and before we get reward is caused due to what?Thank u

I’ve just put a pizza in the oven and I have a full tub of ice cream in the freezer. Time to sit back, relax and watch a vid.

Everyday I crave to browse social media and yotube. Does that mean my dopamine level was below baseline and when I browse i get the dopamine hit ? How to change this behavior and do something useful like exercise or clean house or read something useful ?

Andy Frisella was just asking about why his mood changes so drastically. I think this is exactly what it is.

So what happens when you get a high peak, will it go back to baseline, below or above?

Awesome 😎

What if dopamine levels never significantly increase and stay relatively flat?

I understand my addictions better now

Why theres dopamine when watching videos but not when we are Reading? Even if There Is Reward in reading?

Thankk youu❤❤

Why we have dopamine hits from watching even bad events, violence, dramatic movies?

This shit is dope.

How to make use of this?

Hey,genius I am student tell me how to focus and learn fast?

I wonder why he says "ex-PUHR-ience" like some sort of Atlanta gangsta.

Completely contradicted yourself in the video. ‘Increase in dopamine creates the motivation’ and at the end you say the exact opposite. Makes one wonder if you are qualified to explain the topic.

Someone get this man a sandwich.

I dont get it, hes covered this several times, a lot. And ppl still "oh ty so much for this, never knew it before".