Supercharging Dopamine Levels
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Supercharging Dopamine Levels
I came across this article yesterday. If the mods determine it to be medical advice, please delete. There is a small section on supplements.
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By Christopher Hope
Dopamine is one of the most important hormones in our body, it is called the ‘magic neuron’ and it controls extremely important processes in the brain. Most of us don’t even know what dopamine is, but if we learn how to control it and stimulate it, we will be able to heal anxiety, paranoia, depression etc.
Dopamine is the neuron which stimulates after joy and reward ( reward mechanism) and it’s the main component in our body that makes us become addictive to drugs, alcohol, tobaco etc. It is a neuron of joy, but often creates issues. It is not because of the neuron itself, but it’s because of our numbness and disability to control it on normal levels or stimulate it when we are in need. A regular human being gets his dopamine high in a smaller scale through activities like getting paid, having sex, winning a game and so on, but there are other ways to stimulate the bundle of these neurons in the brain that activates the high.
In this article, we will share simple and interesting ways how to supercharge your dopamine levels. After you succeed to manage the dopamine in your body, you will truly acknowledge what pure happiness is. You will be stimulated on so many levels and your life-energy will be stronger than ever.
1.Excercise
Physical activities and simple exercises could be a great booster both to your body and spirit. Make it part of your daily routine and practice physical exercises on daily basis. Your brain will not only relase dopamine, but also serotonin and endorphins.
2. Make a to do list
Set your priorities straight and make a nice plan. Include things that make you really happy and manage all of your ‘issues’. Try to get rid of all difficulties and fears, try to focus on growing as a person and completing tasks that will make your proud on yourself.
3. Eat foods that stimulate Dopamine
Foods rich with tyrosine are great dopaine stimulants. This amino acid is the percursor of dopamine and it could be found in these foods:Eggs, Green tea, Milk, Watermelon, Coffee, Almonds, Bananas, Dark Chocolate, Yogurt.
4. Reduce Your Lipopolysaccharides
It is an endotoxin that messes with your immune system and stunts the release of dopamine. Gut protecting foods, like yogurt or taking probiotics, will help you reduce the level of lipopolysaccharides and helps you release more dopamine.
5. Detox
Detoxication is an improtant and vital component of your pattern if you want to be seriously focused on supercharging your dopamine levels. Try to clean your body of all toxins, and if you are addicted to cigarettes, alcohol or drugs, quit it immediately.
6. Uplifting Music
Listening to music is way more effective than we all thing. Many pieces of research proved the strong psychological effect of music. You should listen to songs that make you happy, joyful and relaxed. Make the listening part of your routine too. Spend 10-15 minutes of the day in playing/listening to your favorite songs.
7. Get creative
Your creativity will make you feel fulfilled and happy. Like we already said, it is time for changes and new plans, so this is a great opportunity to start a new hobby. Try something creative, something that requires work and imagination.
8. Positivity
The power of positivity is always the strongest! Try to clean your aura of all low vibration frequencies of negative energy and keep the spirit strong. Don’t fall in despair or depression, always try to look at the bright side of life. Your spirit will grow stronger and your brain will forget what stress really is. You will be calm and relaxed, which is good both for your body and soul.
9. Supplement
Our dopamine levels can also be raised by taking supplements:
– Gingko Biloba is known to help dopamine levels.
– Curcumin in turmeric is pretty effective in raising the dopamine levels in your body
– Acetyl-l-tyrosine is a building block of dopamine, so a healthy dose of it supports the production of dopamine in the brain
– L-Theanine increases neurotransmitters in your brain, dopamine being one of them. Green tea is a rich source of this.
10. Yoga and meditation
Yoga and meditation will not only help you raise the dopamine level in your body, but will also open a whole new ‘world’ in front of you. You may grow spiritually, learn many things about yourself and your spirit, and keep your body healthy and strong. Meditation should definitely become part of your new hobbies if you expect positive change in life.
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By Christopher Hope
Dopamine is one of the most important hormones in our body, it is called the ‘magic neuron’ and it controls extremely important processes in the brain. Most of us don’t even know what dopamine is, but if we learn how to control it and stimulate it, we will be able to heal anxiety, paranoia, depression etc.
Dopamine is the neuron which stimulates after joy and reward ( reward mechanism) and it’s the main component in our body that makes us become addictive to drugs, alcohol, tobaco etc. It is a neuron of joy, but often creates issues. It is not because of the neuron itself, but it’s because of our numbness and disability to control it on normal levels or stimulate it when we are in need. A regular human being gets his dopamine high in a smaller scale through activities like getting paid, having sex, winning a game and so on, but there are other ways to stimulate the bundle of these neurons in the brain that activates the high.
In this article, we will share simple and interesting ways how to supercharge your dopamine levels. After you succeed to manage the dopamine in your body, you will truly acknowledge what pure happiness is. You will be stimulated on so many levels and your life-energy will be stronger than ever.
1.Excercise
Physical activities and simple exercises could be a great booster both to your body and spirit. Make it part of your daily routine and practice physical exercises on daily basis. Your brain will not only relase dopamine, but also serotonin and endorphins.
2. Make a to do list
Set your priorities straight and make a nice plan. Include things that make you really happy and manage all of your ‘issues’. Try to get rid of all difficulties and fears, try to focus on growing as a person and completing tasks that will make your proud on yourself.
3. Eat foods that stimulate Dopamine
Foods rich with tyrosine are great dopaine stimulants. This amino acid is the percursor of dopamine and it could be found in these foods:Eggs, Green tea, Milk, Watermelon, Coffee, Almonds, Bananas, Dark Chocolate, Yogurt.
4. Reduce Your Lipopolysaccharides
It is an endotoxin that messes with your immune system and stunts the release of dopamine. Gut protecting foods, like yogurt or taking probiotics, will help you reduce the level of lipopolysaccharides and helps you release more dopamine.
5. Detox
Detoxication is an improtant and vital component of your pattern if you want to be seriously focused on supercharging your dopamine levels. Try to clean your body of all toxins, and if you are addicted to cigarettes, alcohol or drugs, quit it immediately.
6. Uplifting Music
Listening to music is way more effective than we all thing. Many pieces of research proved the strong psychological effect of music. You should listen to songs that make you happy, joyful and relaxed. Make the listening part of your routine too. Spend 10-15 minutes of the day in playing/listening to your favorite songs.
7. Get creative
Your creativity will make you feel fulfilled and happy. Like we already said, it is time for changes and new plans, so this is a great opportunity to start a new hobby. Try something creative, something that requires work and imagination.
8. Positivity
The power of positivity is always the strongest! Try to clean your aura of all low vibration frequencies of negative energy and keep the spirit strong. Don’t fall in despair or depression, always try to look at the bright side of life. Your spirit will grow stronger and your brain will forget what stress really is. You will be calm and relaxed, which is good both for your body and soul.
9. Supplement
Our dopamine levels can also be raised by taking supplements:
– Gingko Biloba is known to help dopamine levels.
– Curcumin in turmeric is pretty effective in raising the dopamine levels in your body
– Acetyl-l-tyrosine is a building block of dopamine, so a healthy dose of it supports the production of dopamine in the brain
– L-Theanine increases neurotransmitters in your brain, dopamine being one of them. Green tea is a rich source of this.
10. Yoga and meditation
Yoga and meditation will not only help you raise the dopamine level in your body, but will also open a whole new ‘world’ in front of you. You may grow spiritually, learn many things about yourself and your spirit, and keep your body healthy and strong. Meditation should definitely become part of your new hobbies if you expect positive change in life.
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Interesting, thanks for sharing. I have been really drawn to all these foods: (like, seriously, ALL of them!)
Now I know why! 
Eggs, Green tea, Milk, Watermelon, Coffee, Almonds, Bananas, Dark Chocolate, Yogurt.
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Thanks for this!
Good reminders and a lot of validity to much of this. I find it can be a lot of WORK to keep dopamine flowing.... serotonin in balance. For me, I wound up going a medication route.
I have a theory; I think the years of alcohol abuse, coupled with a few years of pretty heavy use of seretonin & dopamine effecting drugs, probably reset my brain's baseline. Maybe even reprogrammed it permanently.... I have found that particularly in winter time, even using pretty much every strategy listed here - plus light therapy, vitamin supplements, probiotics and a host of other things - I still felt myself dragging and low. Lacking energy. Mildly-to-moderately glum. I never considered this depression, but that's what my doctor and therapist called it.
These are all great suggestions and I continue to practice them all in my life. Another strategy that helped me, which isn't listed here, is to consult my doctor and my therapist and understand the right balance of tools and options for me.
Good reminders and a lot of validity to much of this. I find it can be a lot of WORK to keep dopamine flowing.... serotonin in balance. For me, I wound up going a medication route.
I have a theory; I think the years of alcohol abuse, coupled with a few years of pretty heavy use of seretonin & dopamine effecting drugs, probably reset my brain's baseline. Maybe even reprogrammed it permanently.... I have found that particularly in winter time, even using pretty much every strategy listed here - plus light therapy, vitamin supplements, probiotics and a host of other things - I still felt myself dragging and low. Lacking energy. Mildly-to-moderately glum. I never considered this depression, but that's what my doctor and therapist called it.
These are all great suggestions and I continue to practice them all in my life. Another strategy that helped me, which isn't listed here, is to consult my doctor and my therapist and understand the right balance of tools and options for me.
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I'm drawn to all the food.
Seriously.
But I've read that list before, and I do have most of them daily. I'm not big on supplements since they're unregulated, but to each their own. I feel like I did as a kid now that the poison of alcohol is gone. It does take time for things to settle down so if you're in early sobriety, I'd say give your natural healing abilities some time before adding supplements. Like a year or so.
Seriously.
But I've read that list before, and I do have most of them daily. I'm not big on supplements since they're unregulated, but to each their own. I feel like I did as a kid now that the poison of alcohol is gone. It does take time for things to settle down so if you're in early sobriety, I'd say give your natural healing abilities some time before adding supplements. Like a year or so.
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Thanks Rar. This kind of stuff is right up my alley. I also use different amino acids to help boost my serotonin....as opposed to drugs. 5-HTP is very effective. And as always people should check with their dr before supplementing with Aminos...but they are amazing.
Mood altering substances cause huge rushes of dopamine (which is also a 'learning' hormone...we learn to do something pleasurable again and again) which are dangerous and artificially high. In comes dynorphan to squash that rush. Which leads to tolerance and that awful craving...the why can't I have just one?
It definitely takes time for the brain to stabilize so helping it along with hormone releasing foods and activities is so important. At least for me!
Mood altering substances cause huge rushes of dopamine (which is also a 'learning' hormone...we learn to do something pleasurable again and again) which are dangerous and artificially high. In comes dynorphan to squash that rush. Which leads to tolerance and that awful craving...the why can't I have just one?
It definitely takes time for the brain to stabilize so helping it along with hormone releasing foods and activities is so important. At least for me!
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Originally Posted by Rar 
Agree BB. I'm not big on the supplements either.
The Food and Drug Administration is not authorized to review supplements for safety and efficacy before they hit the market
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Great list. Funnily enough I've found myself drawn to many of these suggestions over the last couple of weeks. i think if we learn to pause and listen to our bodies, they will often tell us what they need or want to feel good. And no, alcohol doesn't count.
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My usual advice on supplements applies - whats worked for someone else may not work or even be suitable for you.
Please do consider its best to get some advice from your Dr or at least your pharmacist first to make sure there's no interactions with other meds or problems with existing health conditions
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Please do consider its best to get some advice from your Dr or at least your pharmacist first to make sure there's no interactions with other meds or problems with existing health conditions
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