223. Breaking down the low dopamine morning trend, and what you should do instead
Do You F*cking Mind?
Alexis Fernandez-Preiksa - Neuroscientist and Mindset Coach
4.9 • 914 Ratings
🗓️ 11 June 2023
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
On this ep, I am going to break down what I like about the low dopamine morning trend (all over Tiktok and blogs) and what I disagree with, and what the science says instead. I then give suggestions of what you can take from this trend and what you should do instead of some things that are suggested.
Brain Fact : Barbiturates
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, my beautiful boons and welcome to the episode of today. So today I'm going to be talking about |
| 0:06.3 | the low dopamine morning trend. This is a trend that got pretty popular last year on TikTok is the |
| 0:14.1 | main one. And then there was all these blogs done about it and a lot of, I've still seen a lot of |
| 0:17.7 | things cropping up about this low dopamine morning trend. So I want to be talking about what your mornings should look like. |
| 0:23.1 | And I'm going to be talking about what it is that I don't agree with on the low dopamine |
| 0:28.3 | morning trend and what I do agree with because there's a lot of good that is spoken about |
| 0:35.8 | in this trend. |
| 0:36.6 | And then there's a lot of things that are just |
| 0:38.1 | contradictory, counterintuitive just doesn't make sense |
| 0:40.9 | and I completely don't agree with. |
| 0:42.3 | So we're going to be going into that. |
| 0:44.2 | We're going to be talking about that. |
| 0:46.6 | I also do recommend that after listening to this, |
| 0:49.3 | if you're super interested, you then go and listen to, |
| 0:51.6 | I will quote what episode it is, but my dopamine episode, which talks in depth about the neurochemical dopamine. So you understand better |
| 0:59.9 | how it works, because I'm only going to brush over certain, like, really scientific things |
| 1:03.7 | about dopamine in this episode. We do have a brain fact. The brain fact is all about barbiturates. |
| 1:09.1 | Good times. They are a central nervous system depressant. |
| 1:12.4 | And then topic of today's episode and then I'm going to do a listener story at the end of today's episode. |
| 1:20.1 | That is all. Let's get straight into the brain fact. |
| 1:25.1 | Okay. So the brain fact of today is all about the sedatives in the barbiturates |
| 1:31.8 | family group, barbiturates. So what are they? Babituets are a class of drugs that are intended to |
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