Improve Your Baseline Dopamine for Motivation & Drive | Dr. Andrew Huberman

You can find those there , but you need proper nutrition and therefore nutrients in particular tyro . In order to have sufficient levels of baseline dopamine the third thing on the list . And again , these are things that we come back to almost every episode , but I don't think they can be repeated enough because these are really things that we need to focus on every 24 hours .

Improve Your Baseline Dopamine for Motivation & Drive | Dr. Andrew Huberman

If you're going to be able to engage in any kind of motivated pursuit behavior of any kind . So those are the fundamentals that will set the level of baseline dopamine in your system . A couple of key points .

Improve Your Baseline Dopamine for Motivation & Drive | Dr. Andrew Huberman

In other words , we are going to have to have enough dopamine in the wave pool , enough water in the wave pool that is before we can generate any waves or peaks in dopamine , let alone troughs and the rest . So how do we achieve a healthy baseline level of dopamine ? Well , there we can really look to some foundational practices , practices that perhaps you've heard about on this podcast before .

Improve Your Baseline Dopamine for Motivation & Drive | Dr. Andrew Huberman

Some people just seem to have lower activation energy and higher levels of dopamine are probably associated with that . Some of us have lower levels of baseline dopamine , regardless , everyone needs to engage in the foundational things that I just mentioned a few moments ago every 24 hours or at least strive to . There is no escaping that .

Improve Your Baseline Dopamine for Motivation & Drive | Dr. Andrew Huberman

So quality sleep , non sleep , deep breath A K A Yogan Ira , very powerful ways to keep your baseline level of dopamine at a sufficient level . In addition to that nutrition , no doubt plays a role in your baseline level of dopamine . Because tyrosine , the amino acid is the rate limiting enzyme for the synthesis of dopamine .