What Is Dopamine? – Dr.Berg

Take Dr. Berg’s Advanced Evaluation Quiz: http://bit.ly/EvalQuiz

hi guys Dr Berg here in this video I want to talk about this very interesting thing called dopamine dopamine is a neurotransmitter which is a hormonik communication or message that travels through the nervous system versus hormones are Communications that travel through the blood and um this neurotransmitter has the effect of giving you pleasure okay so it’s a pleasure neurotransmitter does other things that are involved with reward and even motion so if you have a problem with dopamine deficiencies you might have resting Tremors and Parkinson’s which is a different thing but it’s mainly pleasure it’s a feel-good hormone it also gives you that Vitality so if you could imagine not that you ever took cocaine but the sensation of taking cocaine what you would feel like this heightened pleasure you know ability of the conquer everything it’s only because cocaine and Other Drugs stimulate dopamine so the actual physical feeling that you have is coming from dopamine not really the drug the drug is only the trigger that creates more dopamine in the body so my thought is why can’t we just increase make sure this is high naturally right so if you’re deficient in dopamine you lack motivation you lack that drive uh you become fatigued you kind of lose your goals um addictions very addictive personality mood issues anxiety depression resting Tremor things like that so you can see that this is a very uh popular neurotransmitter that people are trying to increase by doing a lot of things especially you know drugs um the causes of a dopamine deficiency would be excessive caffeine can deplete it but if you it’s interesting because caffeine will initially make you feel good but if you take too much over time it kind of decreases the dopamine uh effect alcohol will decrease dopamine certain drugs cocaine all those type of drugs and even a lot of the psych drugs proac paxel well Butrin all of those do increase dopamine so over time it depletes dopamine so it’s a trick because it’s you bring it up and it’s bring it down same thing with like drugs if you’re addicted to drugs um you’re going to deplete your dopamine reserves and you’re going cause the necessity to take more and more more drug over time um insulin sugar will deplete dopamine stress will deplete dopamine uh cortisol from the adrenals will deplete dopamine low stomach acids if you don’t have enough uh stomach acid you can’t digest protein in general so you start developing a problem with making neurotransmitters in general so you’ll be deficient in a lot of different transmitters neurotransmitters so the point is how do you know if you’re deficient in stomach acid well number one do you have heartburn Do you have a reflux do you get indigestion that would mean that you’re probably deficient in stomach acid as you age you need more stomach acid so just by adding more Alid of vinegar or ban Hydro chloride you can increase your neurotransmitter uh Reserve okay then we have adrenal stress the adrenal gland the inside of the adrenal gland makes dopamine so if your adrenals are burnt out or exhausted you’re not going to make the level of dopamine so chronic stress you know all these things deplete your neurotransmitters not just dopamine deficiencies but all the neurotransmitter deficiencies so here’s some things that you can do of course don’t consume as much caffeine or alcohol just get off the drugs get off the sugar cut the stress down increase the acid improve the adrenal but also here’s n nutrient wise you can take tyrosine that’s a natural amino acid that has a precursor to dopamine you can take alanine which is a precursor to dopamine it can help build it up um it’s a natural amino acid vitamin D getting a lot of sun will help recharge and build up dopamine reserves vitamin B6 and B5 are two other additional B vitamins that are necessary in making this neurotransmitter um of course in a lot of the other videos I talk about you know all these things will deplete these vitamins too so uh you may not need these if you stop taking these right here okay exercise will also increase dopamine so as you can see there are things that you can do about this so I just want to bring your awareness up that um there is a hormone behind this and if you have any of these symptoms you might want to do some of these actions okay thanks for watching take five do it and where am I going with this press the Subscribe button forgot the last part and I’m going to see you next time am I going to I will press up and uh yeah you’ll get future uh updates that’s right updates I knew there was a word press the Subscribe button and I will keep you updated on the future events