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

Second , there are practices that are supported by the scientific literature to increase your baseline level of dopamine that are independent of sleep but are similar to sleep . And I like to refer to these as a non sleep , deep rest . This is not meditation .

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

A dopamine related cascade in neuromodulators , dopamine and hormones that lead to states of well being elevated mood alertness , et cetera throughout the day . It also helps your sleep at night . But today we're talking about dopamine .

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

Now , the very basics um put in the context of today's discussion are the things that put water in the wave pool . Those are going to be getting sufficient amounts of quality sleep each night . Something that we've done several episodes on and in have online tool kits for us .

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

Those have been shown to increase the amount of dopamine in your dopamine reserves by up to 65% which is a remarkable number . 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 .

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

If you want to skip all that and just get right to the tools . We have a sleep tool kit or it's actually called the tool kit for sleep that you can access at Huberman lab dot com . Completely zero cost .