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trying to figure out how to State this

um there’s one thing that we know for

sure about dopamine no one really

understands the complexity of dopamine

if you do a deep dive on dopamine your

head is going to literally spin because

there are so many theories just when

they say they have it figured out well

no that doesn’t work they’ll say it’s a

motivation molecule or the thing that

gives you pleasure or the thing that’s

involved with reward no it’s not it’s

associated with these behaviors but it’s

not the thing that gives you these

Sensations you give yourself these

Sensations dopamine has many many many

different functions

in one part of the brain it works this

way and another part of the brain it

works completely differently dopamine is

involved with motion and movement like

body movement that’s why like in

Parkinson’s disease the person will

always have low dopamine and they’re

very rigid they can’t move freely

dopamine is associated with behaviors

and certain emotions but anyone who is

on the lower emotional scale is going to

have low dopamine and have low other

neurotransmitters as well as low

hormones their entire biochemistry is

going to be on the low side dopamine is

also involved in the sleep cycles it’s

involved in the gastrointestinal

motility the movement of things to your

GI system food intake learning kidney

function blood pressure and yes it does

get increased with pleasure but it also

gets increased with stress and pain so

when someone is using a drug to help

balance this one molecule

boy does that come with the package

which I’m going to talk about there’s

been a recent like upsurge of people

doing dopamine detox we’re trying to

detoxify this toxic dopamine hormone the

problem is not dopamine okay yes we need

to balance it out if it’s low it’s the

synthetic Sensations or the experiences

or the stimulus that we’re doing that we

need to get rid of whether it’s

scrolling with social media 24 hours a

day on Tick Tock gambling nicotine drugs

and then you also have like caffeine and

pornography all these things are

artificial or synthetic ways of

experiencing certain Sensations and when

you try to get these Sensations

artificially or synthetically it comes

with a package but I think we should

instead of doing a dopamine detox we

should do a bad lifestyle detox there’s

certain medical problems that involve

low dopamine you have Parkinson’s

schizophrenia

add or ADHD and even depression and

people that treat these conditions to

try to increase dopamine are doing

something that they just don’t

understand they don’t ever look at the

diet they don’t look at the nutritional

cofactors that could be involved you

have to realize a dopamine is a system

it’s a pathway it doesn’t ever work as a

single molecule it’s involved in this

complex biochemical pathway

and when you treat it as an individual

molecule

you will always lose and when we’re

talking about losing I’m talking about

mainly with the side effects that come

as a package not only do these

medications deplete other

neurotransmitters but for example

anti-schizophrenia medication has a side

effect it can create motivational

disorders paranoia even lactation in men

and women and another side effect is

addictive behaviors now let’s take

another category of medications which

are antipsychotic medications

what are the side effects of those one

is

Parkinson’s symptoms and then when

people take medication for Parkinson’s

okay one of the side effect is they

become a gambler which is a an addiction

so you have to understand that dopamine

has many different functions and it

works differently in different parts of

the body and on top of that dopamine is

a neurotransmitter it’s a signaling

molecule that works within the nervous

system it’s like a communication

hormone-like particle and hormones are

the communication particle that works

through the blood and you know what’s

interesting about that all your hormones

all of them require dopamine for those

hormones to work I mean there’s over a

hundred thousand research papers on

dopamine in PubMed right now all trying

to find a new treatment without the side

effects but they’re never going to be

successful because it’s impossible

dopamine again is not a single little

molecule that acts on its own to create

this one specific effect it creates many

many different effects for different

parts of your body you can have years of

stress bad eating have deficiencies of

the cofactors that make dopamine and end

up with low dopamine you can also have a

serious traumatic event let’s say a loss

of a loved one and be very depressed and

have low dopamine because of that

lowered emotion but by trying to

increase that hormone without looking at

the whole picture

it’s not going to work it’s just it’s

not logical so what can someone do well

number one start getting rid of the

artificial synthetic

experiences or stimulus number two start

looking at natural ways to help balance

dopamine in other neurotransmitters and

I’ll give you a couple consistent

regular exercise being outside will

naturally increase dopamine

what’s interesting about dopamine it

works with serotonin in opposites so

people that are inside a lot have more

serotonin uh and people that are outside

have more dopamine now I’m talking about

the relative uh ratios here but the more

outside that you are the more dopamine

that you’re going to have uh even the

Sun and even vitamin D3 can help

increase dopamine you also have other

experiences like music the Arts doing

things that you like being connected to

people and also having all the cofactors

the things that help this hormone be

reduced like tyrosinase and even having

the cofactors these are things that help

the production of this dopamine like

tyrosine which is an amino acid you can

get that just by consuming or focusing

on adequate good protein sources like

animal protein and just as a side note

if you have very low neurotransmitters

and you have a lot of body problems and

you need a lot of repair

it’s very important to consume a little

more protein and make sure that is

animal protein as well as animal fat for

the healing process because that’s going

to give you the raw materials to help

build up these neurotransmitters but a

lot of these neurotransmitters are also

influenced by the gut microbiome so

having a healthy gut is also very

important and the other two nutrients

that are involved in dopamine are

vitamin C you can get that from leafy

greens or sauerkraut make sure it’s raw

and copper which is a trace mineral now

where do you get copper from shellfish

okay or seafood

if you just have seafood or shellfish

once a week you’ll get enough copper but

just as a side note to that if you

consume a lot of zinc without the copper

you can create a copper deficiency also

having just a lot of stress in your life

and consuming a lot of sugar will

increase the demand for this vitamin C

in Copper and just the last point about

this topic you want to look at the body

as a whole not as an individual molecule

the body molecules are not in control

they’re at the effects side and they’re

involved in biochemical Pathways that

involve many different steps and each

one of those steps involve enzymes and

each one of those enzymes involve

cofactors those are like vitamins and

minerals so a lot of this comes back to

having the right diet which

unfortunately many doctors do not look

at that piece of the puzzle so look at

the whole body if you’re going to treat

something like this

use natural remedies that don’t have

side effects and one last little point

about dopamine your gut microbiome help

you make neurotransmitters for more

information on that you should watch

this video right here