We have these manmade substances with extra dopamine, about two times the amount of dopamine. Alcohol also has more dopamine in it. Your brain doesn't just think dopamine is important and seek out dopamine, but it remembers where and when you get dopamine. You always need to see out a thing with more dopamine. That's what your lower brain thinks. Okay. Great example of this is after I eat dinner, I always crave sugar and I always have this little thing that pushes me to eat. And so my brain didn't just think, oh, it's really good for you to get that dopamine and we want to seek out that dopamine. But I remembered, remember you get this dopamine,

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