Tools to Manage Dopamine and Improve Motivation & Drive

Dopamine isn't just about pleasure, according to Dr. Andrew Huberman. It's about motivation, cravings, and the pursuit of things outside of our immediate experience or possession. In order to maximize dopamine production, the following tools can be used: sunlight, caffeine, tyrosine, mucuna pruriens, L-tyrosine, phenylethylamine, cold exposure, and... See more

Neuromodulators are produced from amino-acids. Especially l-thyroxine is a building block of dopamine. This can be used to motivate activities leading to the intake of l-thyroxine. It makes us feel in pursuit and alert.

Dopamine plays a lot of roles in the brain. If you kill off the cells that produce dopamine, the animal is not motivated to go out and do things. It’ll still enjoy something — like the sucrose solution you squeeze directly into its mouth — because the pleasure systems are fine. But they won’t pursue it. If you perform an action and you get more dop... See more