9. Reset Your Dopamine: Reset Your Life

Maybe you're not depressed or unmotivated, maybe it's just your dopamine. Dopamine is responsible for motivation, pleasure & learning and it affects us way more than you can fathom. This podcast episode revolves around the hosts' exploration of dopamine and its importance in their lives. They discuss their decision to take a break from social media and the realization that they were becoming disconnected from the present moment and their own experiences. They touch on the significance of being fully present during the labor process and the desire to optimize their well-being during this time. The hosts also highlight the negative effects of excessive social media use and emphasize the need for deeper connections with ourselves and the world around us. [00:02:13] Talking about dopamine. [00:05:29] Learning about dopamine. [00:10:58] Unhealthy relationship with pleasure and pain. [00:12:03] What is dopamine? [00:16:02] Pursuit of sex and dopamine. [00:19:38] Exercise and dopamine levels. [00:23:05] Dopamine and baseline reset. [00:26:08] Scroll addiction and dopamine. [00:29:29] Healthy vs Unhealthy dopamine hits. [00:35:09] Finding pleasure in effort. [00:37:12] Shifting our relationship with dopamine. [00:43:18] Time perception and hard work. [00:46:30] Dysregulated dopamine and self-awareness. [00:48:07] Dopamine and mental health. [00:50:56] Making the choice not to do the thing. [00:55:37] Moderating dopamine consumption. [00:58:23] Simplifying Pleasure and Dopamine. [01:04:23] Finding deep levels of joy in simplicities [01:05:32] Squeezing the juice of life. 00:06:46 - "I felt myself Being sort of loop roped into this little dopamine slot machine in my pocket." 00:10:13 - "There is literally no motivation in our generation." 00:13:24 - "We're like engineering how to get high off our own supply." 00:16:02 - "it's not just the act of sex, but mostly the pursuit of sex doubles your dopamine." 00:19:55 - "But if you don't enjoy the exercise that you're doing, you're actually depleting your dopamine." 00:24:41 - "And then when they're not taking drugs, they feel miserable because their body has down-regulated those receptors so heavily that you require a giant dose of this drug to just feel the simplest, non-pain, to just feel comfortable." 00:26:59 - "And then the shopping kicked in the shopping. I don't shop." 00:28:16 - "You have to go through that discomfort." 00:31:01 - "You're literally designed to know what happened to your next door neighbor and that's it." 00:34:24 - "And that is what Huberman at the end of the day said was basically the cheat code of having healthy levels, sustainable levels of dopamine and increasing your baseline, because you can." 00:40:29 - "And within, I think it was like 24 days or something, more focused, back into the game of school, enjoying life again, not depressed anymore, not anxious anymore, just because of dopamine." 00:44:36 - "find joy in the process" 00:47:32 - "You need to have extreme things in order to just feel alive." 00:50:56 - "literally the pleasure comes from making a choice to not do the thing I know I shouldn't be doing" 00:56:46 - "Go out, get the berries, do the thing, go home." 00:57:08 - "You're going to have to pay the price at some point." 01:00:18 - "finding joy in the simple things only comes from going through the pain of down regulating your system to be able to find joy in the simple things" 01:05:41 - "When we stop ODing on dopamine, we can start to really squeeze the juice of life." 01:06:24 - "This will increase my baseline of dopamine later and forever because you can, you can continuously increase it." Thanks for leaving us a thoughtful 5 star review and sharing your insights with us! ⁠⁠⁠Check out Sole Freedom - Natural Footwear. Send us your questions & inquiries at [email protected] Want to connect? contact Tash on Instagram ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠@natashakredl⁠⁠