How to Avoid Unnecessary Dopamine Peaks With "Dopamine Stacking" | Dr. Andrew Huberman

I love to exercise . I know to some people , uh this might seem foreign but I love to exercise .

How to Avoid Unnecessary Dopamine Peaks With "Dopamine Stacking" | Dr. Andrew Huberman

I love to exercise . I know to some people , uh this might seem foreign but I love to exercise . I love to do resistance training .

How to Avoid Unnecessary Dopamine Peaks With "Dopamine Stacking" | Dr. Andrew Huberman

Mind you not running , I'll take 500 mg of tyrosine or more typically , 500 mg of py ey laine and very , very rarely , maybe once every two or three months , I might stack all of those things together prior to a workout . But of course , I'm always mindful to also include workouts or runs or bouts of cognitive work . So that could be grant writing , prepping for a podcast , et cetera where I don't do anything prior , maybe just my caffeine because I have a baseline level of caffeine that I use each day to function like many people .

How to Avoid Unnecessary Dopamine Peaks With "Dopamine Stacking" | Dr. Andrew Huberman

There are plenty of difficult things in life that I dread or that I'm sort of meh about . But for me , hard exercise , intense exercise of a particular kind , resistance training and running in particular . Both give me a yum , yes , I love this kind of feeling and yes , it persists for me quite a long while afterwards .

How to Avoid Unnecessary Dopamine Peaks With "Dopamine Stacking" | Dr. Andrew Huberman

Quote unquote . I hear that a lot . I don't like to exercise , but I love the way I feel afterwards .