Cravings bad increase your dopamine levels instead of eating!
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Dopamine is a neurotransmitter crucial for motivation, focus, and overall well-being, with low levels linked to decreased enthusiasm. The document outlines various strategies to boost dopamine, including diet changes, exercise, sleep, and social interactions, emphasizing the importance of protein and avoiding saturated fats. Additionally, it provides a disclaimer about the nature of health coaching services, highlighting the individual's responsibility for their well-being and consulting medical professionals for health-related decisions.
Cravings bad increase your dopamine levels instead of eating!
- 2. Increase Dopamine = More Productivity
- 3. Pleasure When dopamine is released in large amounts, it creates feelings of pleasure and reward, which motivates you to repeat a specific behavior
- 4. What’s dopamine? Dopamine is a neurotransmitter that our brain produces to nudge us into doing stuff. It’s the main reason why we can focus and achieve great things even if the payout isn’t immediate or obvious.
- 5. Aside from being the ultimate motivator, having a constant supply of dopamine in your system has a few other fringe benefits: ● Helps you lose weight. ● Makes you feel more alive. ● Improves your memory. ● Stops self-destructive behavior including certain addictions. ● Counteracts depression. ● Lets you resist impulsive behavior. ● Helps you avoid Parkinson’s disease
- 6. Low Levels of Dopamine In contrast, low levels of dopamine are linked to reduced motivation and decreased enthusiasm for things that would excite most people
- 8. Eat more PROTEIN! Protein contains the amino acids we need that play a critical role in the production of dopamine. How much protein do you consume in a day? I am betting not nearly enough!
- 9. Eat less Saturated Fat! Foods such as animal fat, butter, full fat dairy, coconut oil, disrupt or slow the signaling of dopamine.
- 10. Get your gut health in order! Having a healthy digestive system will improve moods and play a role in the release of dopamine. Are you taking a quality probiotic, with digestive food enzymes? I have ask me what I take!
- 11. Exercise often! Exercise is recommended for boosting dopamine and endorphin levels and improving mood. Improvements in mood can be seen after as little as 10 minutes of aerobic activity but tend to be highest after at least 20 minutes.
- 12. Get enough sleep! Lack of sleep can reduce dopamine sensitivity in the brain, resulting in excessive feelings of sleepiness. Getting a good night’s rest will help regulate your body’s natural dopamine rhythms.
- 13. Listen to Music! Listening to your favorite instrumental music may boost your dopamine levels.
- 14. Meditate! Meditation is the practice of clearing your mind, focusing inward and letting your thoughts float by without judgment or attachment. Meditation increases dopamine levels in the brain.
- 15. Get outside! Seasonal affective disorder (SAD) is a condition in which people feel sad or depressed during the winter season when they are not exposed to enough sunlight. Sunlight exposure can boost dopamine levels.
- 16. Eat berries! Resveratrol is an antioxidant in some berries that helps increase dopamine levels in the brain.
- 17. Eat more fish! DHA in fish boosts dopamine levels as it supports the brain’s electrical signals and reduce the production of the enzyme that breaks down dopamine.
- 18. Eat more green leafy foods! Folate in green leafy veggies helps release serotonin which is involved in the regulation of several processes within the brain including memory, anxiety, depression, aggression, mood, appetite, sleep, emotions and perceptions.
- 19. Get more human contact! Remember that guy in high school who likes hugging a lot? Turns out, he was onto a good idea. Human contact triggers dopamine production not just for you, but for the other person as well. So get your dopamine fix whether you’re caressing your spouse, hugging the kids or even shaking hands with colleagues.
- 20. Get a massage! Touching also boost dopamine, including massages. It reduces stress and tension in your muscles. But if you haven’t had one for a while, it’s high time to get one at your local spa.
- 21. Get quality time in with your pet(or go to the animal shelter)! The principle of increasing dopamine through touch also extends to animals.. They need it as much as you do!
- 22. Try new things! Dopamine production is actually triggered when we find something new and exciting in front of us.
- 23. Do Creative things! Increasing dopamine can be as simple as taking up a creative hobby like photography, crafting, auto repair or drawing.
- 24. Dance! Get up and move, do it alone or with friends, celebrate anything great that’s happened recently. Celebrating a win releases a flood of dopamine into our system.
- 25. Take a cold shower! It can boost your dopamine levels by as much as 250%.
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