Dopamine, scrolling, and the slot machine effect

so i'm looking into a few things because of course like where my curiosities lead me but i always fall down like a rabbit hole in my brain um because i was thinking and i have been thinking about this for a minute but i was scrolling on youtube and i've been meaning to look at this for like probably like months and i said if they only had a little switch that said auto like that

it would automatically, like if you cook or you're doing whatever, it'll automatically scroll through the feed. But I remember back in something like 2000s, I remember reading some form of an article where there's a pleasure effect from you scrolling. There's a reason behind why the scroll exists and that they leave it like that. It's not probably going to be put on automatic because there's a reason for it.

So when I looked at ChatGPT to kind of look into a few things, it does state that there's a dopamine release and reward system, which is why they leave the scroll. However, what I found interesting, which is what leads me down the rabbit hole so many times, is that when you engage in social media, it triggers the release of dopamine, a neurotransmitter associated with pleasure and reward.

And of course, since I've been looking a lot into different types of effects on neurotransmitters in specific and kind of like bridging the gap and whether it be for hormones or communications or memory or neurological deficiencies, I've been kind of looking into different things also for myself because that's the sector that I'm kind of on right now.

So anyways, here when I went further, it says other things about as far as like the effects of the dopamine release and reward system. But I actually went further into another area.

where I said, this resembles to me why slot machines are popular for the same reason, because I thought, okay, this is also why slot machines are slot machines. They're not going to change things like this because that's what they want. They want you to be compelled to use it and stay addicted. And what you're trying to do or what the body's trying to do is that when it affects those neurotransmitters, you're basically going to scroll

searching for the video that you like, which gives you that reward system of that pleasure effect. So I went further into thinking about a few things because I thought, you know, how is it that it affects the brain in other regards? Meaning, I said, so having to scroll automatically would remove the dopamine effect essentially. So if

we put those buttons, let's say, and it automatically scrolls. I said, well, that's why they're not doing it because it'll remove the dopamine effect, which I'll look into other questions regarding that because I usually study the opposite side at some point. But what I wanted was more so to look into a breakdown because I said, so essentially you get dopamine from having control and anticipating anything. So

what I realized is that that reward system of wanting to have like instant pleasure or wanting to be in a lot of control in a person, that is the outward expression of how you can tell that the person doesn't have homeostasis in the body. Whether it be because of stress, that's why they're in, you know, sometimes stress

we look into things like psychologically okay um and what i've been looking into is that there's a lot of i guess you would say physiology right physical um there's a chemical reason there's actual physical reason health reason as to why sometimes we do what we do not everything is psychiatric now this is my opinion obviously i'm not a doctor but usually we go through the through the

mind right and we say oh it's because you had all these things happen to you as a child yes however when you had let's say that you had an imbalanced uh life you know and you didn't have homeostasis therefore you try and you develop this pattern to constantly control but why there's actual physical expression as to what the body does chemically as to why you

function in that manner so whether the person stays constantly seeking gratification they'll try to hyper control everything looking for the next gratification and they usually get it because obviously like you have to you're doing things your way you're getting things your way so they're constantly doing these patterns in order to seek gratification now this could get into more toxic levels obviously

where you would say, well, if your neurotransmitters are affected, you know, and you're looking like if it's even whether it's drug addiction or toxic patterns or toxic sexual patterns, things like that, you're looking for the next gratification, which, you know, I think that that gets into things like, you know, people when they're like sex addicts or you're constantly looking for the next, not just gratification, but what will make you happy, right?

because the person whose neurotransmitters are affected in this way, the dopamine levels are lower. And when your dopamine levels are lowered, that's usually a sign that the person also deals with high levels of stress and some form of maybe depression. And that also translates into anxiety. The anxiety is for the same reasons. You're looking for stability

and the anxiety comes from the frustration of not having the homeostasis in the body. So the neurotransmitters, they play a crucial role in motivation, pleasure, and reward system. So here I was looking into, I said, give me the process of how basically, because it affects the pituitary gland, right? And what I was looking at is it specifically affects

a specific area of the pituitary, which is, um, but it also, I was saying, you know, to me, it also, uh, from what I remember from nursing school too, I was like, I was like, it affects then the hypothalamus. So you're looking at, um, when it affects the pituitary, the pituitary is a master, um, it's, it's the master gland basically.

It controls everything. It controls everything regarding your hormones. And what do hormones do? Hormones are for reproductive, but it's a little bit more than that. It really controls your emotion. It controls your feelings a lot of times, which is, you know, especially when they say, oh, the woman's hormonal, it does that. So, but it happens to the men as well. So one thing that I was looking at is that because it does affect

the hypothalamus as well um you're talking about a person that needs to be in control because it starts affecting their hormones and if you start riding on that wave for like forever which means that you have high levels of stress but it's undealt with um it affects your hormones it affects your reproductive it affects your health um

but it's all in the sake of not dealing with, whether it be something that it is psychologically or patterns that we need to break, but there's also a health reason that your body physically expresses. So here I said high levels of stress would lower levels of dopamine and depressed individuals would also express lower levels of dopamine, meaning that they would be more likely to one,

be more in control or be controlling to seek out pleasure which would express or show up as toxic behavior or seek self-gratification if it is that their dopamine levels are low so here going on to the next because i won't read through through it um as far as like what it necessarily responds to me but i'm like it has me asking myself a few other things

So while here, yes, low dopamine is often at the core of stress, depression, and unhealthy behaviors. The brain, driven by the need for pleasure and reward, reacts by seeking control or instant gratification. So in essence, like a lot of what we have access to, it's really molding our minds for, which we know, instant gratification, because that's why we say, you know, it's a microwave generation, right? But when you're seeking for control,

and instant gratification on a constant basis and this leaks into your daily life beyond just the social media and things like that this is where you know we'll have problems because it's almost like you're taking like the video game to real life right um so this could result in self-destructive behavior patterns so you know negative patterns um so

here is where I said, um, your pituitary is your master gland and it would also affect your hormone levels and your hypothalamus. Can you describe the functions of the hypothalamus and how the lower dopamine affects the male and the female? So, um, the hypothalamus is where it's going to maintain homeostasis, but also your stress, your hunger, your thirst, your body temperature, and your hormone production. Um, beyond that, it's, um,

something that I actually deal with because it deals with your stress response, homeostasis, but it also deals with your autonomic nervous system. So it affects your sympathetic and your parasympathetic nervous system, which are branches of the autonomic nervous system, which control your involuntary bodily functions like heart rate, digestion, and respiratory rate.

so you're going a little bit further of how far this behavioral pattern ends up affecting not just your hormones but it starts branching out affecting your nervous system and again if you're the type of person that already has issues with your nervous system or your autonomic nervous system then these are things that would further

affect it um affect your digestion uh especially the heart because um when it affects the hypothalamus it affects the vasopressin so in what which will essentially it affects the heart the the vasopressin but at the same time in your vascular system um which is you know everything but um in in the males um if you're dealing with depression and you're dealing with um

trying to get self-gratification at some point after doing that for a while, the autonomic nervous system doesn't respond quite the same, the sympathetic and the parasympathetic, right? The sympathetic being the fight or flight, you can't tell when you're in danger. This is a problem. Or you always feel that you're in danger. And the parasympathetic, the rest and digest, you don't get rest and then you don't eat appropriately, right?

so you get all uh put upside down you know um not calibrated so when that happens this is also a huge cause as to what ends up causing or what ends up helping to cause in some cases um erectile dysfunction um because it starts affecting your hormones

And the person will put on weight. The person will put on weight in a strange way though, because this I've looked into before. It's like when you get that tire, so you get a tire around your waist and then you get muscle wasting. And these are all signs of this. It's all signs of you wear, and it's so true because it's like, yes, we are what we eat. So, but our health, what happens on the inside, we start wearing it on the outside, whatever that is.

And in this specific case, you know, if we're on a constant wheel of having to control everything to try to keep our homeostasis, there's a reason as to why you would want to self-reflect and wonder, you know, if this is actually the healthy way. Because if you say, well, I'm going to be in control of everything and I'm going to be in control every single time and I'm going to be a controlling person. I don't care. And that's my personality. But is it?

is it your personality? Because your body will actually communicate that it's not, that this is actually not a healthy way of being. And it communicates it through the nervous system. It communicates it to your heart. It communicates it through the brain. It communicates it to your fight or flight, through your sympathetic, through your parasympathetic. It will communicate it all over your body until the body has no longer any avenues more to express itself until

It has a heart attack or something of more extreme matters happen. And it's because we haven't either broken certain patterns or because we haven't really looked in depth as to what causes the situations that, or why we are, why we are, how we are, or what is actually the nature of what's causing our health problems, right? So yes, if you are naturally this way,

you know you have people that you go well that person naturally takes charge this is very different this is this person's nature but when you have to push yourself out of that nature and then you're forcing yourself to take control forcing yourself you're already breaking out of things and this is why i tell people yes we can learn to better ourselves but in essence it is best to be yourself because you are showing respect to the nature of your body of how it has been how it

has its essence you know because when you start pushing yourself um in ways that are way beyond what you are you're not working with the essence of what you actually are and you can still do whatever it is that you're doing but you have to do it in the mode that you are so that you avoid pushing yourself into these spaces where you're forcing yourself to then have to take control

and manipulate things to such an extent that it starts affecting the health and it starts affecting the mind it starts affecting the reproduction imagine the body communicates and the body communicates in very interesting ways right so in this here the first thing that it does for the man and the woman is that when you continue down that pattern and the health starts being affected and it starts affecting your hormones what does your body say where

not doing well, we're not reproducing. That means you're not making copies of yourself. When you make copies of yourself, and I have to look into this because I am curious, but it's like if you make a copy of yourself and you're not healthy and you are in these circumstances, how does that pass down to your child? Because we think that that doesn't pass down to a child, but then the child

You might notice that the child's very stressed. The child has a lot of, you know, the things that you would... I wonder, you know, I really wonder. I'm going to look into it before I get ahead of myself. But I do wonder if it's that, you know, there are little blueprints. So you end up making that copy if you're very stressed. But for the most part, the body will fight you to not produce or not reproduce at that point, right? So...

because it's not in a balanced state in order to do it. And everybody knows that if it's like you're ready to have a baby and you're relaxed and everything's easygoing and you're happy, much easier to get pregnant. Much harder to get pregnant if it's that you're stressed and whatnot, right? But the dopamine in the hypothalamus

The dopamine's role in the hypothalamus, it inhibits prolactin when you're affected in this way. It leads to excessive cortisol release, which is the fatigue, weight gain, sleep disturbance, and then the reproductive dysfunction. But what I was also looking into this is that even in that characteristic, again,

I'm looking into it backwards. So this is the outer expression of whatever you already have internally going on. So it's not that you see that and you're doing that and it causes it. It's just, I mean, it adds to it because you're creating a pattern, you know? But the fact that we repeat that and we go, well, now we want instant gratification for this. We want instant gratification. So imagine going back to one of the video, video,

actually yeah i did talk about that in one of the videos um but one of the clips i was talking about the dating profiles how the dating profiles you're doing the same thing essentially so this ends up being a pattern that i think in the future will change obviously because this is not something that if the service wants to offer that yes then for quick self-gratification it will it will continue with the that wheel of you know scrolling you know however

if it's that the application is meant for finding something more serious, then it will not cater to self-gratification, essentially, if it's that they ever do that because they want to make business. But when we get used to the fact of if that's your main way of dating, whether it be a dating app or that you're on a social platform,

most of it involves scrolling. So whether you're on Facebook or Twitter or whatever, or Instagram, you end up scrolling and you're looking for what? Self-gratification. What's the self-gratification? What instantly pleases either your eyes, your mind, or whatever. You know what I mean? But you're looking for constant self-gratification. So what does that say? That the person themselves inside, they do not have homeostasis.

And if this person is struggling with low dopamine, you're looking because of the lack of dopamine, you're looking for your pleasure seeking automatically, whether it's because of food. You know, this explains a lot about like food addiction, things like that, because you're looking for that dopamine to be raised every single time chemically. Now, I wanted to see.

so what i wanted to ask was how does dopamine affect the body physically so dopamine has a profound effect on both the brain and body so if we think about this at a physical level like yes we can say oh well duh like we want gratification because we want to feel good it's like yes but if your body you know people break down love to chemicals right oh it's just a chemical reaction it's like okay

Well, imagine you're breaking down the actual reason, the logical reason as to why sometimes us as human beings seek things. And then we have resources in front of us that cater to this behavior to further make it more concrete in our lives. And these are things that our body fights us against because it actually depletes us of dopamine.

so if your body is hungry for dopamine whatever your weakness is whatever it is and it might be all the above you're going to naturally physically not psychologically i mean yes it could be something psychological it's involved because you're thinking about it you're there's an interaction there but first at its at its core at its more basic you're starting at the physical the the physicality of what the health is of the of the human body

so the body is going to require it. Why? Okay, we're going to go into that. Influencing numerous physical processes through its role in the central nervous system and its interaction with the peripheral nervous system. So motor control. Dopamine is a crucial player in regulating movement and coordination.

This is very important as to why I was looking into this, because I was like, neurotransmitters, you're talking about this behavior at some point left unattended, and we're trying to go in through the mind, right? Oh, well, maybe if I just change my mind. It's behaviors you can't rid of, patterns you can't break. Why? Because we're not curing them at the physical body level. We're not curing them at the natural level, the logical level.

at the most basic, at the most primal, it's that. It's that your body needs dopamine. It's going to try to look for it in any which way. So usually what we'll do is, oh, well, I'm going to have to go to the psychiatrist or I'm going to have to go talk to a counselor or I need to go, but you haven't been able to break that behavior. Why? Is it that we're all weak-willed? No, it might be that we go through the avenue of the mind when in reality it needs to be through the body to then

deal with it in the mind you get what i mean like it first has to be done dealt with physically to then get to the point of dealing with it at a psychological level because that is just like me saying like if you have a computer you're putting in the code and everything so it's first the physical the the primary stuff that goes in first right but the outcome is whatever comes into your screen and then you go okay well i'm gonna have to fix but there's a there's a point one first

there's first a before, before there's whatever that's seen. And what comes out in the action is thought of in the mind, but first it happens physically in the body, chemically in the body. So one of the most well-known impacts, oh, so what I was thinking too with this is that we're in such need of it. Why? Because it affects us neurologically. And especially if you are already a person

And again, I say this because I deal with dysautonomia, right? So if I'm dealing already with something that is neurological, and that's why I had to kind of isolate myself and get myself to a point where I make myself get balanced, I make myself get to homeostasis, even if it's that I have to hyper control my atmosphere.

that's why people they say oh it doesn't matter if you took a vacation it matters if you took the vacation mofo it matters it matters if you get the rest it matters because the body needs that time to find its homeostasis but it's making a practice of it not having it once in a blue moon but making a practice of it because it ends up affecting the neurological system and and it affects i'm going to look further into it but i know that it affects the memory and

And it affects, in turn, the person's actions. You might be acting outside of yourself because it affects your hormones. Again, because of the imbalance. And what more way of being in control is that if you're in control of yourself. You're not making decisions out of anxiety. You're not making decisions out of fight or flight. You're not making decisions being cold. There's sentiment to things. You're not making...

these type, that type of being in control is very different than trying to force steer the boat. That is a stress and an anxiety in itself, because when things, because life is that way, things don't always come out our way. You know, we don't always get our way. We can try, we can aim for it, but we don't always get our way. And because we're dealing with a lot of different puzzle pieces in life, dealing with those fluctuations,

us being balanced in homeostasis is what helps us to deal with the stress of life to move along with it to deal with the waves of everything but when we cannot uh when we want to be in an obsessive type form of control and it doesn't come out our way this is where the anxiety where the frustration and all these other things come you know it comes out why because truly

it's an inner working that is happening within us that there's a lack thereof, you know? So here it affects movement and coordination. One of the most well-known impacts of dopamine on the body is its involvement in the basal ganglia, a group of brain structures responsible for motor control. So if you're already dealing with a nervous system issue,

And you're already dealing with nervous system issues that are because of a disease that you're already having troubles with motor control or movement disorders, Parkinson's, really anything. At that point, these are the type of things that I also think about autism because I was looking into the correlations. I had done a video on that.

the correlations between, well, it's because I was reading into quantum and of course I fell down the rabbit hole. So how quantum relates, anyways, leave quantum to the side. I gotta leave that conversation for another time. But how dysautonomia relates to a lot of autistic patients, right? So autism and dysautonomia, a lot of autism patients have dysautonomia.

Why? Because of the disbalance, the neurological, they have a hard time balancing. So I was like, this has to do something at the core, something neurological because of the way that the dysautonomia works. And I thought, how do you balance that out in a dysautonomia patient in order to help also the autistic patient or the patients that are on a spectrum because I'm neurodivergent, right? So in that, in that,

you can also say that this perhaps these type of actions or that type of exposure for an autistic maybe child or for an autistic even adult for an autistic person period or anybody on the spectrum these type of applications perhaps are not necessarily the best if it's that the person is constantly addicted to that because what they're searching is dopamine and rather than giving them

the actual need that they need of how to naturally get the dopamine and help them with their health, that way that they can find homeostasis and it would help them with their dysautonomia. It might actually help with attacks that they have, finding balance, being able to have more clarity as well. And if they are affected neurologically,

having more of the connection in the neurotransmitters in order to create fluidity so that they can move better, helping them. So here, a group of brain structures responsible for motor control. So Parkinson's disease, low dopamine levels. So this is the commonality. So that's what I was noticing. I was like, wait a minute, hold on. And of course, YouTube scrolling is what gets me down the rabbit hole.

This happens all the time. I'm like, I can't help it. Anyways, so neurodegenerative conditions characterized by tremors, muscle stiffness, and slowness of movement. This is because dopamine normally helps the brain coordinate smooth, see smooth and controlled muscle movements. And when it's lacking, it causes motor dysfunction. So again, it goes back to the whole thing with dysautonomia. And this has a lot to do not just with Parkinson's,

but pretty much anybody that has any type of neurological disorder, because that's what it creates. It creates disorder. It's not ordered. It's not orderly. There's misfires. That was the other thing that I had done in that video that I was talking about when I studied it, if they would leave me alone. There's a lot of misfiring, and that's part of the thing that you end up

focusing on, you start realizing that there's a lot of misfires in the brain neurologically as to why the body cannot find its equilibrium, basically. It can't find its homeostasis because it just throws out misfires. And because of these misfires, it creates miscommunication, which is a lot to do with what happens here, the neurodegenerative disorders and the inability of the body communicating properly.

so motor coordination dopamine helps maintain balance and muscle coordination dopamine producing neurons in the substantia nigra sorry i get excited and i'm actually a little sick okay send signals to the stratum which involves the fine tuning motor movements which is what i have problems with like with my hands at times

So with low dopamine, this coordination is impaired. So you're talking about that it plays a substantial part. So that's in the neurological. In the cardiovascular system, which I was already touching on that topic, the heart and the blood pressure. So it can have both vasodilatory, well, anyways, dilation, vasopressin and vasodilation, right?

and vasoconstrictive effects, depending on the receptors it acts on. So the heart rate, dopamine can stimulate the heart, leading to an increase in heart rate and contractility. So it acts on the beta-1 adrenergic receptors in the heart, leading to a stronger, faster heartbeat, especially under stress or excitement. Blood pressure, and this is part of the thing, it says...

like under stress and excitement. Me, what I have is that my blood pressure is very, very low. So my heart rate will go down to like the floor and I have POTS. So, and part of it is, yes, in part it's the dysautonomia that affects me, yes. But the EDS affects me too because of the laxity in the veins. So sometimes I'm a little bit addicted to the coffee. It's because of the vasopressin effects.

the fact that it makes it basically tighter, you could say. But green tea technically does the same thing, and I should choose the better option, but I sometimes don't. So there's that. So blood pressure in certain doses. Dopamine acts on the dopamine receptors in blood vessels, causing basal dilation or widening of the blood vessels. So the backwards of basal dilation, basal constriction.

which helps reduce blood pressure. However, at higher concentrations, dopamine can simulate alpha adrenergic receptors causing vasoconstriction and increasing blood pressure. So that's what I meant, vasoconstriction. Is that what I said? Anyways, vasoconstriction. This is why dopamine is sometimes used in medical settings to raise blood pressure in patients with shock or hypertension. It affects the digestive system, the gastrointestinal. So

including motility and nausea, which is what I have right now. So the motility is interesting because this is something also that as far as like with EDS patients, you end up dealing a lot with this. We have problems at some point digesting the food properly. The motility is down. Now it's for a different reason, but you're talking about

not digesting properly. And in Parkinson's disease, this happens when the dopamine is low, results in constipation due to impaired movement of the intestines. And I remember this happening a lot to actually my ex-boyfriend's mom who had Parkinson's, who has Parkinson's. So this here is something that is also that affects others with neurological disorders as well, that they deal with a

again you're talking about overall it affects a lot of different problems that are you know sort of major not sort of they're major and then the endocrine system again which is the hypothalamus the pituitary the prolactin inhibition the stress and cortisol levels so dopamine is involved in the hypothalamic pituitary adrenal access which controls the body's stress response low dopamine levels can lead to an overproduction of cortisol

causing chronic stress, fatigue, and immune system suppression. This also lowers your immunity. So that's what that is. It lowers your immunity. So when it lowers your immunity, it's like saying you have your defenses down. So the more that we actually feed into that self-pleasure and trying to control things and self-pleasure, the reality is that

It's an outer body expression of what is going on internally already. However, the outsource nature that we keep playing with and actually using further concretes or solidifies that bad behavior.

in order for us to duplicate this pattern and keep repeating that pattern outside of ourselves and duplicating it into our lives, these bad negative patterns. And really they do affect our health. They affect our health, our neuro health, neurological health, but also considering that not everybody is built the same.

if you have a you know i'm thinking more like of children you know so if you have a child that is autistic or you have a child that has neurological disorders um and they're struggling and yet these are the things that are that were being given to entertain us you know it lends to think if this is healthy then for certain characters you know um really for anybody because if you're

you know, already, you know, scrolling all day long, you're inadvertently just trying to pleasure seek, whether it's a dating site, whether it's online or whatever, but you're constantly trying to put yourself in a position of pleasure seeking. So it begs the question as to, well, why? You know, because we always crack it down to saying it's just emotional. And it's like, yes, that's in part of that. But why? Like health wise, why? Why?

Because health-wise, your body might actually just be trying to reach out and saying, hey, it's not just about what you feel and think. Your emotions are being messed with. Your neurological system is being messed with. You have high stress levels. Yes, there's stuff going on at home, but what is going on in your body? And that is more so what the body's trying to communicate.

all the other things are added features to what is essentially what you are interacting with and what is really going on in the inner workings of the human body, of your human body. So dopamine also impacts the immune system, which is what I was saying, but it includes the T cells and the macrophage. Now the macrophage, it's specifically to, well, it helps you in cancer. So T cells as well. So

You're talking about, it says by regulating their activation and response under certain conditions, dopamine acts as an immune modulator, potentially enhancing or suppressing immune responses. And when it comes to cancer, you know, people think that stress isn't a big deal. But again, if you're drinking diet colas and your blood brain barrier is down and you have a family with a history of cancer and you're stressed,

What we do is we grow these cancers within ourselves. And by not having our T-cells and our macrophage at its good, our immunity up, basically, that macrophage is meant to eat up all of the bad, dirty stuff, basically, to explain it. But what ends up happening is that our defenses are down. And it's more than likely that the stress would then, yes, the stress, it oxidizes the cells. So it will essentially...

at some point somewhere depending what is suffering the most you may get cancer in that spot or area you know now the cancer can be caused in many different ways however this is a way of a cancelling also starting in the human body so here is one response to which is inflammation

and inflammation people don't take it as it's a big deal but again your body communicates how your body communicates is through giving it signs you know giving you signs when you see inflammation it's not happy why am i inflamed that means that at the cellular level there is something going on and your body reacts in inflammation whether it's water retention whether it's inflammation because you know you are turning pinky or red and you're swollen

that inflammation, there's something going on there. Even if it's just an allergic reaction, or even if you say, oh, it's my allergies, or if it's X, Y, Z, or you're constantly getting a cold. These are the kind of things that, especially if you're getting cold and sick a lot and things like that, or throat pain and this and that. If you have high levels of stress and you notice that sickness keeps touching your life,

then you start realizing, wait a minute, my immune system is down. My defenses are down. Why are my defenses down? And it's your body communicating, saying, hey, pay attention to me. I need some stuff. I require some things. And I might need you to take some rest. I need you to pay attention to me. Because the body will constantly keep alerting you and constantly keep signaling to you. But if we have not learned to listen and to pay attention to the subtle signs,

even through our actions, even through our feelings, even through our hormones, even through our daily of whatever we're doing, our body is communicating like, hey, I need something. I need dopamine. I'm looking for something because I'm going through depression. The body is truly communicating. And if we notice that within ourselves,

It makes it much easier to notice it within others that when you observe, you realize you like, there's people that I look at and I go, it's just that they're dealing with depression. I can tell this person's dealing with depression, you know, or they're dealing with a high level of stress. And it's like, yeah, the person's dealing with a high level of stress, but how is it affecting you? Is it affecting your neurological system? And at a neurological level, you're talking about it's affecting maybe your motor skills, your movements. And then they'll quickly tell you it's this disease and this disease.

and it may be but further than that it could be things like this and again I say this for myself so it affects your skin and hair we know this because when you're stressed you pop out with pimples you lose hair you know and it's because of the hormonal regulation and blood flow so again we go back into also looking into the dopamine dysfunction how it causes problems with blood flow okay

so why because it starts affecting your circulatory system and your heart so you know when it does that what happens if it's that you have erectile dysfunction it's a blood flow problem it's a problem that the blood doesn't get to cause the raise in the first place so we'll take it as oh it's that something is wrong with me I am not able to perform and it's not that it's that your body is seeking health

and it needs and it it tries to really get your attention and it's like well this will get his attention and then that's it it's it starts like you know hiding itself gets your attention but then we take it as oh it's something emotional and it may not be necessarily that it's something emotional more so that there is a circulatory problem

and there's a dopamine level problem as well. And I think that I believe that if we constantly just keep feeding our self-gratification constantly because of the necessity of having the need for dopamine, this is why they tell you that they think that it's a behavior thing or that it's a spiritual thing. They'd say, don't masturbate. You're constantly masturbating. If you masturbate is that you're trying to self-gratify. So when you self-gratify enough,

That's it. You get punished and your wiener don't work. That's not what this is. What happens is that you're looking for the dopamine effect over and over and over and over and over and over. And at some point, if the person notices that, one, it doesn't satisfy you, or two, you're constantly looking for more and more what happens. The person, psychologically, if you're seeing the same thing over and over, the person might even become more perverse, trying to seek more

of whatever might gratify them. And what the person is trying to seek is self-gratification and reward system. And our systems, everything that we have, TV, phone, and everything, is further making that behavior grow, basically. But not your wiener. Your wiener don't grow. So what happens is that the dopamine is low. So the dopamine is low. So what happens? You have to then deal with the person's health.

and if you start restoring your health, that is where you start being able to have more, because since it affects your hormones, it's going to affect your sensation, but it's also going to affect the person's, not just self-gratification, like nothing will satisfy the person, but it's also because the hormones get affected. When the hormones get affected, if the person is dealing with depression, if the person is constantly stressed, this all

results in factors as to why the erectile dysfunction happens so they'll tell a lot of times of people well don't masturbate because if you keep masturbating yes in essence they're right but the core of that is because the dopamine levels you know you're teaching your body that okay well just do this and keep you know trying to gratify yourself to raise our dopamine every time you want to raise your dopamine and in reality it needs to be done something organically which is to deal with the self

then that way you're also restoring one to heal yourself but also to restore your your pleasure factors you know what i mean as far as like um coming back to health even in that you're not seeking um because the only thing that you'll do is keep trying to look for the next best thing and you're not going to get the same pleasure you know it's why people they'll treat that's why i said you'll take

the video game and take it to real life because you're going to go through every person trying to look for satisfaction every single time scrolling through every individual not every the individual once you get used to them you're going to get over it and then you're going to want to go to the next one why because there's never going to be a sense of pleasure off of that person anymore because you already gratified yourself right so the self gratification the reward system you reach the reward and you okay now what that's it

so that doesn't you know it robs you of connection and it's because of the imbalance in the hormones as well so sometimes we say is that the person is dealing with you know their emotions yes because it translates eventually into that because your actions get altered so you have again with your actions with your feelings but first everything starts at the basis which is chemically uh anatomically um

at a cellular level so here oh here look i scroll and it's like i love these things because it's like where am i i have like i was like how long have i been chatting with myself over here i'm like i don't know how long i have 48 okay well let me see so sexual function and libido

high dopamine levels are associated with increased libido and sexual motivation stimulates the reward centers in the brain which can increase sexual desire and arousal see this is the point you're trying because if there's low dopamine you're trying to seek you're trying to seek these reward centers by constantly trying to see what will arouse you and this is where people get

you know confused as to oh well that yeah i'm trying to see whatever you know that's why you'll be scrolling through porn for forever probably right you'll go scroll scroll scroll scroll scroll at that point what you scrolled through last time you don't want to scroll through that again now you want to go look for something else that's what this is it is a seeking for pleasure you're seeking dopamine your body is asking you for dopamine and since it's sort of vital

it's going to really ask you for dopamine. Sometimes it's not that you have a high sexual drive or that the person is necessarily a dog or that the girl is a dog. You know what I mean? It's that the person is seeking dopamine. It needs it for your nervous system. It needs it for your heart. It needs it for your brain function. It needs it for your hormones. It requires it. And when you're dealing with depression and you're dealing with high levels of stress, this is why you see

that in areas of jobs and things like that where it's very high levels of stress, what does the person want to do? Go have sex. But what happens is there's higher levels of cheating, this, that. Why? Because the person has low on the floor because they're not taking care of themselves. So they have low on the floor dopamine. And low on the floor dopamine means that person is going to go seek pleasure anywhere. So

Yes, is it a character deficiency? Absolutely. But much harder does it become because the body is necessitating more dopamine. And you might not have, you lose connect with people because you're losing, because you're having, you're dealing with the hormone imbalance. Furthermore, if you're dealing with disease or neurological issues, even more so, this becomes more difficult, right? So the erectile dysfunction.

The dopamine enhances the ability to achieve and maintain the erection by promoting the release of nitric oxide, a vasodilator in the penis. Low dopamine levels can result in erectile dysfunction or lack of sexual desire. So you're already, by having low dopamine, your balloon's not inflated, man. And this is what happens. So when we say take care of the stress factors,

and take care and look into the fact that stress, it means something. Yes, it does. When we're seeking pleasure and we think that that's no big deal, we think that that's a character flaw. Yes, the outward function is the character flaw. Yes, because you can always say no and you have to change that pattern. But by changing that pattern first, you need to change and deal with the health aspect first

Because if not, that will result in a lot of struggle because you're not going to maybe change the atmosphere that you're in. So if you're dealing in high in levels of high stress or spaces of high stress and the high stress is not going to change, then does the control serve you? No, because the control and the hyper controlling, it only lowers the dopamine levels.

And again, if the person is naturally this way, this is different because that means that's their homeostasis. That's naturally how they are. They're respecting that body that they're in. But the person that is not and you're coming out of your skin trying to be who you're not, you're going to know because you're going to be dealing with depression and low dopamine levels because you're trying to basically

Put yourself in armor that doesn't fit and suit you. You have to respect and honor the body that you're in and still be in those spaces and still lead how you lead, but honor and respect the character that you have because your body's going to disrespect you then. It's going to be like, no, you don't want to be yourself. That's fine. No problem. But buddy, I wasn't made for this, man. And your body naturally will communicate this.

so it's not whether one is right or what is wrong it's just simply honoring and respecting the body that you are in because you start having multiple breakdown as far as at the cellular level or you know at the dopamine level at least in this case so orgasm function in women also the dopamine is involved in sexual arousal and achieving orgasm low dopamine can lead to low libido and difficulty reaching orgasm

and that also has to do with not that she's not into you. It could also mean that the woman is dealing with low libido and low dopamine. This also gets affected after pregnancy, if I'm not mistaken, that it lowers because you have to kind of give everything to the baby. So at some point, these are the type of things that get affected and it all has to do with our hormones, our dopamine levels,

and our way of how we nurture ourselves, care for ourselves, take care of our health, and find that balance, right? So pain perception and sensitivity, dopamine also modulates the body's response to pain. Now, this here is dopamine acts on pain pathways in the brain, providing some analgesic effects.

It can help modulate how the body perceives pain and reduce sensitivity to it. Now, to me, this has a lot to do, like in my particular case, that I deal with fibromyalgia. And, you know, again, my mind wanders into thinking, how am I going to fix these type of things? Which is why I am investigating these little things, because I feel that we have simple homeopathic ways into healing ourselves and doing this. And so far, this has been my...

my route right now so chronic pain and low dopamine low dopamine levels can increase pain sensitivity contributing to conditions like fibromyalgia look at this it takes my words away fibromyalgia and chronic pain syndromes where the body experiences heightened pain perception so again

this is something that I deal with. And also seeing that I deal with dysautonomia, this makes me think of a lot of different conditions that not just autism or neurological conditions or being on the spectrum or fibromyalgia or chronic pain, you start realizing that if these systems are the things that we are constantly on, and what I mean is social media, for a person that's already dealing with these things,

does it make a difference to take like a social media break and things like that then yes then yes because we're then teaching ourselves on a daily basis to find self-gratification in healthier ways using healthier methods and that means that they won't be instant gratification it means that we are teaching and re-instructing ourselves to break that pattern of having

gratification that takes time that there's a reward system but things take time we're not going to get them in an instant right so because this world everything they want it fast fast fast fast fast so if we keep on with that mentality how does it affect us our body is communicating that it affects us in a in a non-healthy way that is sign enough to say it's not good right so sleep wake cycle

I also deal with this, but I've always been a night owl. No excuse, just this. Wakefulness and alertness. Dopamine levels are the highest when we are awake and alert. Promoting wakefulness helps us to focus and concentrate. So by stimulating the brain regions involved in attention, this also makes me think of what? ADHD or ADHD, yes, or ADD also, right? So sleep disruption, low dopamine levels can lead to excessive fatigue.

difficulty staying awake during the day. Conversely, excessive dopamine levels can interfere with sleep, causing insomnia or sleep disturbances as dopamine's alerting effect is most active during the daytime. And I would assume that having high levels of dopamine is that you end up doing quite the opposite, which is that you throw yourself into full out rest. And a lot of times the depression leads into that. So I'll further research that and probably do another

clip because I'm actually going to do another one on my other side of the research on the flip side of this, which is still about the dopamine levels. So dopamine is involved in virtually every system of the body, movement, cardiovascular health, digestion, hormone regulation, immune function, sexual function, pain perception, and sleep-wake cycle. So the dopamine's effects are widespread and imbalances, whether too little or too much,

can manifest as a range of physical symptoms affecting multiple aspects of health. It is a critical neurotransmitter that helps coordinate the body's physical responses to both internal and external stimuli. So that is the connect. So a lot of things that I'm noticing too, when it comes to this, as simple as it sounds,

this is the type of thing that I go, we sometimes want to break patterns just at the mental level, right? We just want at the psychiatric level, at the psychic level, at the psychological level. So you just want to break patterns there and you go, oh, I have to just think about this and then break my pattern. But it's more involved than that. There's a starting point that is beyond that first and starting with the health. And when we start

taking that into consideration we're able to then say let me deal with the health aspect that body is more probable to then say because think of it this way if you feel satisfied and you are in balance at that point you're not looking for a fast reward so when you're saying even if like you're looking for a healthy relationship you know so you're not pleasure seeking

you've worked on yourself you've worked on your health you have your self-balance you are in the position to appropriately approach and be with somebody in a healthy manner because you're not going to have these discrepancies at at the hormonal level but you're not going to have these discrepancies at a health level

so that they don't affect your hormones they don't affect your thinking and that way at that point is when you can break those patterns and implement something new which is like i want to break this pattern and implement something healthy in my life well now you can because you have the leg to stand on but you don't have a chair with any legs or you have a chair with two legs you're not going to be able to sit in the chair you know to take your seat

so that's where this comes in it's the framework in order to help to break the patterns that we have that result