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Avoid Stacking High-Reward Stimuli

Limit the habit of combining multiple dopamine-boosting inputs at once or repeatedly chasing another high after a crash. The practical move is to avoid piling on stimulants, intense exercise, loud music, or other high-reward behaviors when you already feel amped up or depleted. This helps prevent the sharp peak-and-trough cycle that can leave motivation, focus, and energy worse in the hours or days that follow.

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The other thing that we know is that if we expose ourselves chronically to substances or behaviors that repeatedly release large amounts of dopamine in our brain's reward pathway, that we can change our tonic baseline and actually lower it over time as our brain tries to compensate for all of that dopamine.

huberman · Essentials: Understanding & Treating Addiction | Dr. Anna Lembke · Jun 26, 2025 · 2:32 · open ↗
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