dopamine in Podcasts
personA neurotransmitter involved in alertness and motivation, released upon vagus nerve activation.
Mentions in Podcasts
She discovered, for instance, that grief is best understood through the lens of human attachment and that dopamine, a molecule that we normally hear about in the context of motivation and pleasure, creates a sense of yearning that is central to the grieving process. She explains it to effectively move through grief. We have to work with both our feelings of protest and our feelings of despair.
When you ingest foods with amino acids, sugars, or fatty acids, the vagus nerve gets activated and triggers the release of dopamine and makes you more alert and go seek more of those foods or what led to those conditions. When you feel nauseous, it's rarely calming. When you feel like you have a fever, it's rarely calming.