Fear - Andrew Huberman, Ph.D. - Neuroscience
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Physiology of Fear
Tim Ferriss: There's something inherently rewarding about confronting fear. When someone confronts a stress that they can actually adapt to increase their capacity to handle, they become a human with more capacity. So then the question I have has to do with maybe speculations on the chemistry of this because you said not just the zypoid nucleus, but the entire physiology and state. Is there something maybe where instead of dopamine converting more quickly into norepinephrine and epinephrine, it's actually staying as dopamine and interacting with opioids or endorphins?
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