Andrew Huberman on Dopamine Levels in People with ADHD 

Not diagnosed but entire weekends go by just staring at my phone. I get as far as my first cup of coffee and sit on couch to check news on phones and that's it. Stuck in a procrastination loop with a weird guilty feeling for the whole weekend.

I literally go on dopamine hunts - it's not healthy. Shopping, sex, alcohol, cannabis, attention by annoying people, stimulus with intellectual arguments or challenges. Normal becomes excruciatingly boring and so painful. My brain works faster than other people's and flits quickly between topics and its frustratingif people are slow. I'm clever but always looking for stimulation. The life of an adult woman with adhd lol 😂 Medidation helps and high dosage CPD seems to help.

What’s funny is that ADHD can also have many of the same characteristics as unhealed childhood trauma as well. It can be hard to tell them apart.

Dude, Andrew thankyou heaps for this, sometimes it's hard to find people who really understand the causes and effects so living with adhd can feel like impossible or your closed off to help but the justification of things that make sense for me everyday is super comforting, would be incredible to properly conversate with you .

This is THE BEST video on this subject I have come across yet. Thank you 🙏🏻

Excellent information!!

Thank you, I'm learning all the time. This is added to my knowledge..🇬🇧👍🏻

Ik you don’t have a lot of subs but your content is amazing. Don’t ever stop, this content and the other stuff you do is enlightening. Thanks for posting !

Cold shower is het answer for dopamine. The dopamine rush is 2,5 above baseline. The same als cocaine. But the major different is that you have that rush for 3 hours ❤

100 % true - i have it and its 100 % like that.

Excelently explained, it feels just as you describe it (by your references and ModerN literature) ...but I think one word needs correction and it is the “recreational” term for referring to illegal substances that boost dopamine, dough it is the official way they are classified and in some places permitted by that same concept of ‘recreational’ or maybe ‘medical’ pain killer use, let me tell you that in the vast majority of adhd/add cases and some other neurodiversities the use of very potent dopamine boosters, fast, accessible long acting anxiolytics, allucinogenics; in general psychoactives used for one or many of its effects is only to function, for example helping in develop of adulthood neuro plasticity or in my case I always been in the search for estimulants even from outside or inside of my body/mind, like the first 40 some years went undiagnosed but even then, for life, I knew that that! was what my brain needed only to be connected within itself and there is NOT any mindfulness or ‘just buckle up/commit enough’ philosophy that work as well as some dopamine/adrenaline running on synapses... it not always is available as needed in brains like mine, the only way to get it is just from outside, other wise my usual state is best case scenario on day dream (almost all the time, mean ALL), other big part of time is sensory/people/activity overwhelmed therefore seriously foggy 🌫 minded I suggest for adhd calling them as a necessary use ❤

Yup.

imho it should be renamed to something like low dopamine syndom. so it makes it more clear and it sounds like something people would take more serious. with adhd people are just like "oh so you are a hyperactive kid who cant focus"

Huberman Lab is the best podcast around

I heard dopamine is too easy to access nowadays in 2022 and that is the problem. I think and heard that dopamine is ok to go for if you are doing work or effort to get it...example...you get dopamine after finishing a project or if you are doing exercise and burning fuel...then dopamine rush is fine. I like to get my adrenaline rush and dopamine from downhill mountain biking...when you get to the bottom of the mountain with your body intact and the bike is ok....what a feeling but that is because you accomplished something while moving your body so that part can't be so bad.

Most of this checks out anecdotally but sugar is a no go for my children who have ADHD, it definitely puts them on an emotional roller coaster. Quite the opposite with food actually, we found that our children are more focused and adhd symptoms seem to subside more with sustained blood sugar levels (ie, no processed/refined carbs).

I see you made the video short for us with that short attention span 😁

I totally have ADHD.

Is dopamine only responsible for stopping the functioning of some neural circuits in the prefrontal cortex, or does it also increase the activity of other neural circuits in the prefrontal cortex ??

I always asked my why then they don't just give somebody who is suspicious having adhd not just give a adreall and see if he or she is calmer afterwards. Especially because a lot of psychological test do not dedect adhd although somebody has this disorder.

"In today's video, I learned I need to be on crack."👍 Seriously, though, what do we do about this?

the not becoming hyperactive after consuming high levels of sugar makes more sense now

Hasn't research shown that eating sugar does not increase hyperactivity but just eating pleasurable foods make people excited and happy? It's not the sugar it's the reward or novelty.

Opiates has been a crutch and a savior for my ADHD. Only good in the short term for me though. In the long term i lose all positive benefits.

the lack of proper sync between audio and visuals caused me ADHD

So as an Adult eith ADHD what can I do?

Non Drugs and then you name coffin and nicotine

I see where u are going with this, but i found it hard to follow. To much text, to much drawings and movements, it was hard to keer my focus. So maybe not the best video about ADHD for a person with ADHD :3

just tried lemon drop shots this summer...had like four of them in a row...never felt so happy in my entire 31 years of life.... never felt more connected to people... if thats how people naturally feel...woww..... yes i discovered drinking at 31 lol... unfortunately wasted my twenties sober as a skunk lol

Pray 4 me I am getting the giggles again

You say at the very end that kids without ADHD that have sugar tend to go wild and run around like crazy - Does that not then lead parents to think their kids now have ADHD and is driving misdiagnosis?

adult adhd lacking Oxytocin related to dopamine do you know much about this

So what you’re saying is I should take cocaine?

Well 💩 I can't even pay attention to this. I had it before it became a trend.

Watching this drinking my 5th espresso and chain smoking….🥹💖🤌🏻

This was hard to focus on watching 🥴

2:10 until 2:23, I'm in this picture and I dont like it!

I get dopamine from talking about male celebs with other guys

Huberman is a smart guy, but I don't think he has much actual experience around people abusing cocaine. ADHD people self-medicate. So do other people. A lot of club/rave people like coke. Of course they do! It's coke! But my ADD friends actually avoid cocaine more than the other party people. The coke comedown seems to be much more brutal for ADD people. You feel great for a few minutes, then you feel worse than you did to begin with for a few hours. That's not an effective way to self-medicate. Caffeine, nicotine, and Adderall all have a pretty smooth comedown that doesn't leave you feeling existentially depressed. A lot of ADD people use massive amounts of those stimulants. But I know several other ADD people who party really hard and have access to substances, and only one of them ever goes on coke binges. I know a couple people who have dealt with legit cocaine addiction and they're some of the least-ADD people I know. But molly/ecstasy ... that's a different story. Show me an ADD girl doing MDMA for the first time and I'll show you a girl crying because she's feeling the relief of being able to catch her breath and relax for the first time in her life.

*me with my cup of choccy milk filled with sugar watching the last part* intresting... *gets 10 more spoons of sugar*

Boring. Video

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