Does Dopamine Detoxing job – or is it simply an additional fad? I did a 7-day dopamine detox and also checked my mind before & after the experience to see how it impacted my brain. And also the results were … shocking. Also for me.
Call it whatever you might – dopamine detoxing, dopamine fasting, dopamine resetting. It has come to be a really preferred fad in the self-help bubble as well as individuals advocate it. It's meant to reset your mind, balance your dopamine levels, make you happier, more calm, present and efficient.
However does it really function or is it simply an additional trend?
If you're struggling with compulsive actions that don't bring you any type of contentment, this could be something you should think about.
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I’m curious about the variation on those brain scan measures. What would we expect a control to vary by after seeing the test once already as you did?
I did a 30 day fast during November and the results were really apparent at the 3 week mark. It was unexpectedly difficult, but the euphoric sensation I gained from something as simple as a stroll outside was so incredible that I feel compelled to go back and make it a permanent change. I’d be interested in seeing brain scans from a 30 day fast! Thanks for the video
“If you’re compulsively doing something that you don’t even enjoy doing, you may need a detox.” Damn.. spot on
alright.
@ultium labs but you still eat everyday not like you fast 24/7 for 30 days.
@YAHOOISNOTG yeah that’s right, that’s what I mean by a month. we fast for around +-12 hours everyday.
I watched this happen to people going through Basic Military Training. They socialized more, letters became priceless, and even more interesting… people became more overtly musical, openly singing any tune for which lyrics could be remembered. Songs would seem to get stuck in the heads of the group collectively. It was quite fascinating to watch these cultural universals manifest themselves. It was like a re-emergence of humanity. I then watched everybody revert within a week of leaving basic. It was rather appalling.
Trust and believe everything he is saying in this video is 100% true & real. The motivation and focus you have after emptying your dopa receptors is unreal. It’s like entering the cheat codes.
This was super informative! Albeit, I’m still looking forward to the day someone makes a neurodivergent friendly version of this. A lot of ADHD is dopamine deficiency and the symptoms caused by your brain trying to make up for the missing happy chemicals. I have a similar problem of scrolling/needing constant stimulation, but removing all the stimulation suddenly I think would just produce understimulation, and anyone who’s experienced ADHD understimulation knows it’s fucking awful.
He is actually so true , I’ve experienced all the things as an affect of too much dopamine , I got carried away by social media and procrastinated all my assignments, projects and homework as a lack of motivation and not getting more dopamine then before I had nerve impulses and restlessness, it’s like a drug, but when I failed my semester I realized what had happened, that day when I quieted social media and other high dopamine sources it felt lonely and depressing but gradually with time it felt so much better
6:50 “if you’re compulsively doing something that you don’t even enjoy, you know it’s time for a dopamine reset” Really grateful for this 🙏
Awesome video!! I loved the part where you recommended observing, or witnessing the urge to grab your phone or snack on something sugary, instead of immediately acting upon it. Separating the observation from action is an incredibly important mindfulness practice. Asking yourself “why am I feeling this?” or even just being aware of it really takes away from the trigger’s power, and could lead to really significant insight. Really well done video 🙂
As someone with severe ADHD I feel no dopamine from any of this, only substances or endorphins give me that feeling. I watch these videos to avoid my anxiety. I don’t feel any satisfaction or excitement from them. If anyone else feels this way I suggest you get checked/treated for ADHD. You may feel broken compared to other people but it’s entirely normal for the disorder. One of the primary problems with ADHD is a lack of proper dopamine production. It’s a severely misunderstood disorder that is generally only thought of when kids do poorly in school. There’s much more to it, get tested and get help if you need it.
Reading fiction is pretty much the same as watching shows and I think it does send a lot of dopamine to your brain too
@Patrick Cooley Makes sense as someone who just got his bachelors in behavioural neuroscience our profs talks about dopamine countless of times and never once mentioned “dopamine fasting.” Also if you wanted to measure dopamine levels they would’ve done a fmri or pet scan. In all my neuroscience classes they cover types of brain measures like EEG, PET, MRI, fmri, etc and not once have I seen this voltage measure ever.
As a neuroimaging scientist (in training) this fascinating to watch! I’ve been trying a handful of these things on my own and have already felt a lot better on the anxiety front. Less general “tightness” in my chest with worry, less hung up on making my work perfect and more focused on simply making progress and completing things I feel are important. Also as someone who has lived my whole life with chronic sleep problems I can absolutely attest to the getting back into reading, coincidently specifically with Dune! I finally started reading again before bed, beginning with rereading the first dune book after nearly 5 years. about 4 months later and I have plowed through the series and am working through book 6, Chapterhouse, and I’m sleeping way better.
@LiveType => Qualia problem.
What is the music in that moment?
Like porn addiction ?
The amount of edits and effort in this video is just insane! Its such quality it comparable to tv shows, honestly its better than most of them are imo. Im currently trying this with 1 day a week!
the problem is that internet give us faster and more information then a book
that must be porn for some many people XD at least for me
Holy crap dude, this video was like an epiphany for me. I knew something was wrong and didn’t even know what it was. Now it makes perfect sense. It also explains why there’s a mental health crisis in younger people, who are the most prolific users of gadgets and consumers of media. The saddest thing is it’s by design. Technology used to just help us, now it enslaves us.
@brmbkl2015 There is a middle way: “the results seem to suggest…”. Meaning, the results of the study are not 100% conclusive, but you can see a full methodology, and draw your own conclusions or repeat the study. Of course correlation does not imply causation, so you have to be very careful at designing the study and when interpreting the results.
This video was the final key to me being able to get out of a lifelong struggle of constant dependence on the phone and distraction. It doesn’t seem like much and it’s just the start but my kids have been screen free completely for 6 days. I have done the detox over this week too and i feel so much more present. This will change the course of my whole family life and my children’s childhood, thank you for being the last piece of the puzzle.
Day 1 complete and I feel more present and aware. I also faced the emotions I was distracting myself from and I think that made me feel a lot more calm.
Nice in theory, but if you change so many variables at once, it’s extremely difficult to attribute any change observed to anything specific. The changes could be from meditation, journaling, dopamine detox, but virtually impossible to say which one. A better experiment would be to change nothing except for the dopamine detox.
Exactly, specially the anxiety and reaction time, if I already know how the test is and what I’ve to do, its rather normal that the person doing it will be way more relaxed than the 1st time they did it. The “processing” time would also be faster, because you already know what to do, so you’ll process it faster obviously… Another think I just noticed, there were 2 “graphs” that measured speed, only one was shown, I wonder if the other actually got a worse result, so it wasn’t shown because of that xD I mean that could happen, the physical reaction being slower, since he slowed down his daily pace. Pretty much just a video for clicks, I bet a second test would present different results regardless, just because he is doing the same thing.
bruh except the point of dopamine detox is to change so many variables at once
as a League of Legends player, i can relate
exactly… he should’ve done the same 7 days with Facebook and Youtube, and maybe the brain would have even better results
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Me too! It’s a unique feeling!
Phenomenal video, thank you so much for including the brain scans.
Quality content 👌
Awesome, informative video, and no doubt all of us would benefit from doing this, but I wonder if the difference in brain results can be explained more by a “practice effect” doing all the tasks the second time? Because the first time you did it, it was new to you; at the end of the week when you did it again, you knew what to expect and so your performance would have been slightly better anyways.
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Overwatch for me :/
@Samantha Vitela wanna be friends?
@Faris al Mousa sure! You have discord?
@Samantha Vitela awesome! i do but havent used it in a very long time. you a gamer?
Lol….better experiment sure, but this is to make you better, not to figure out what miniscule thing helped the most….
That’s so stupid lol
Loved this video! For those going ‘back to normalcy’ from the strict dopamine reset, you might find it useful to consume media that only engages one sensory stimulation at a time first. I.e podcast where it’s just audio, or when watching video I sometimes kill sound and turn cc on (I use this trick when i reaaaally wanna watch something but went past the quota/assigned timeslot of the day. It sort of feels more like reading with visuals and makes me less likely to binge more videos after that).
same like when i dont have my any distractions i just keep thinking negative stuffit also causes isomnia thats why i need a screen before bed or i might cry unknowingly but i cant get any help hotlines or anything so i guess i can dal with it until im older
You’re on YouTube though :/
I like how you purposely replaced the word “reset” with “detox” just after hearing the word detox is missleading
I don’t really feel dopamine from much. No joy or motivation just ADHD and disorganized.
@stinkeyguts cleaning you’re dopamine receptors is a better form of describing it. That’s what i do.
You allowed it to. It has always been a tool. Nothing more. 😂
is it possible to learn this power?
I get your point, but seriously technology creators want to design it as addictive as possible so they “enslave” as many people as possible, This, of course, does not mean it is impossible to break out of it or that we are being held at gunpoint
I was diagnosed when I was four and I can tell self improvement, working out and doing a good job is the only thing that makes me feel alive even when my meds wear off
Guess I need a detox of my job then xd.
@stinkeyguts u pretty much described my whole lufe
@Devlin Ambers My husband’s family didn’t want him to join. He loved physical and mentally challenging things. He wanted to serve after 9/11. He was fooled like the rest of us back then with the con job by bush and Clinton’s and then we continued to be fooled by Obama’s kindness act when he had the most drone kills and casualties and fueled the war machine even more.
My husband had no knowledge about what little respect the addicts of money and greed have for human life, citizens, American soldiers or the citizens they kill around the world.
Read the most decorated marine at his time of death Smedly Butler book War is a Racket before you have children. It’s on YouTube free.
Once our men realize the fight for freedom is now against our own addict like corporate owned government things will change. But some have to see first hand for themselves.
I mean, I could also just be called clever marketing strategies instead of enslavement. I doubt content creators are doing anything maliciously, rather we’re all still learning how to use and not use the tools we create.
I went to basic your right but after basic and ait it changes
I’ve actually been seriously considering joining the military for this purpose alone. I’ve noticed similar effects in school camps, boot camp style camps, just living conditions that restrict modern distractions. Every single time without fail after a few days in these environments I am 100% more at peace than I ever would be at home even tho the environment could be seen as more ‘stressful’ and demanding than normal life. It just feels realer
One book you might want to read is called London. Fascinating history of the UK going back to the time of the Druid’s.
Spot on it enslaves us.
I have been dealing with dyslexia and ADHD my whole life, and I found other ways to stimulate my brain in order to focus, it was especially hard in college. While listening to the professor I would focus on their voice and listen and then focus my eyes on outlining the windows, or the chalkboard, linear help me to focus. Not sure this makes sense to anyone else.
@Guy boot camp is like that. The military is not.
@r33mote I almost spit my tea out.
@MusicalMercy I highly suggest you look up dr bergs videos on that 👍
it’s a new technology, we’re still getting used to it and finding the boundaries. it’s not by design.
This is the definition of addiction.
@FireJach I don’t think the OP is saying that. It’s more about you are habitually doing something and it’s not providing you any pleasure. A great example for many is constantly checking social media. You don’t know why you’re doing it, you don’t get excited to do it as you may have the first few times. You become numb to the stimulus and need more to get the same reaction. It’s essentially how addiction works.
Bro dead on. Happy Veterans Day
I am feeling extremely sleepy and tired after day 15,did you through such experience??