Does Dopamine Work in Any Kind of Similar Way

The dopamine hit that we get that leads these intense feelings of craving and also often bundled with discontent does it mimic the cycle that you often hear explored with glucose levels? It's similar in the sense that you can definitely have a baseline of dopamine so your gut health for example is a great way to up your baseline levels of dopamine but then you can definitely use up the dopamine. Some of these recreational drugs that people use at parties will release so much dopamine that you have kind of refractory period where there'll feel down for a little while, he says.

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