374: Stagnant and Stuck: Overcoming Modern Fatigue
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Hello friends, welcome to the ancient health podcast where east meets west and i'm your host dr Chris motley and today I wanted to talk to you about the desire to change Do you have a desire to change or do you feel as though you don't have enough energy to change because you physically feel tired? There's things you want to do. There's goals you want to accomplish There's things you want to strive for but you literally get up in the morning and don't have the energy

So is there a component within our culture today like scrolling on our phones or iPads, on our tablets, getting the program on our TVs, just basically whenever we want, we have everything set up to where we can get instant gratification. Does that have an effect on?

on our fatigue and our ability to have change? And the answer is yes. So this podcast, we are going to talk about the desire to change in respect to the natural biochemical pathways that are in our bodies and how that constant immediate gratification through low effort, high dopamine actions or activities. So

We're going to correlate that with, yes, the biochemical pathways. And we're also going to talk about how your digestive system is really involved with this. We're going to dive in a bit more into some of the nerdville. So bear with me, everybody. If you know somebody who is constantly on their phone, constantly on their tablet,

Almost with ADD, ADHD type tendencies who always has to have something going on, like they always have to have the music really high or really loud. They themselves are very loud. They cannot sit there and have a conversation with you without looking away or they look like they can't even keep attention because their eyes are always trying to look for the next thing or they try to act like they're paying attention to you in a conversation.

But they're not really paying attention. And you can see it in no fault of them. And no way am I trying to cause any type of anger towards those individuals or try to upset anybody out there. But I think we all have experienced that. And I think we all know when we ourselves do that. So this is me pointing the fingers right back at myself. So let's dive in. We are in the culture where there's a lot of ADD, a lot of ADHD.

There is a lot of OCD. And these are all very big topics. And they are highly associated with the same chemical pathways in your body that help regulate and produce dopamine, the pleasure chemical, and serotonin, the happy chemical. They are heavily correlated. In fact, if you know somebody who has ADHD, ADD, OCD, anxiety, chronic anxiety,

I want you to know that those are direct results of the pathways that produce the serotonin and dopamine. In fact, tryptophan is made into serotonin. Tryptophan found in your fish and your eggs and found in almonds. And tyrosine is made into dopamine. That chemical pathway, if it's screwed up,

will basically result in somebody having the severe anxiety or ADD or ADHD. Just remember that. So when we talk about low effort, high dopamine, we're talking about any type of chemical reaction that doesn't involve a lot of physical output to get high amounts of dopamine. So when we're talking about doing some form of tablet reading, scrolling,

Binge watching. Instead of having to wait a whole week for the next episode, we can watch 15 episodes of our favorite show within a whole night. In fact, I've been here in the office for almost over 20 years, and I cannot tell you how many times individuals will come in and tell me something like, you know, I binge watched the last six episodes of this really cool show, and I didn't go to bed till 3 a.m.

And if you guys raise your hand, you guys are smiling going, yes, I have binge watched something till 3 or 4 a.m. And I've done it so many times and I do it a lot. Now, this is not trying to make you feel guilty or upset or shamed, but that is you getting complete dopamine fixes. And you're always running that pathway to feel that pleasure. I have to find out what's happening in the next episode. I've got to know. I can get it right now.

In fact, some of us will actually fast forward through episodes to see what happens. I know you do it. I've done it before. You can't even wait for a reel to get done, right? And you look at a caption and you go, oh, I'm going to go ahead and find out what happens. It's just we are used to the amount of dopamine being given to us. High amounts in short amounts of time. So that is why when we talk about

A reel or an Instagram reel or YouTube short. Why do they make it short? Because now they're saying it's shorter and shorter. The amounts of dopamine released, it comes very quickly. You don't have to do it for five minutes. In fact, people say I'm going to watch something for five minutes. There's no way. But if you can't hold yourself with attention, you see the dichotomy. You basically want to feel pleasure through the dopamine hit.

So you want it quicker. But if you keep getting a quicker dopamine fix, you will basically injure your attention centers of your brain. You won't pay attention long enough because you did not get your dopamine fix quick enough. So I know we all understand that.

So we all have lower attention rates this day and age. You see it in our culture today. They're even saying that, that we usually, if we don't see something within the first 15 seconds that actually motivates us to stay and grab our attention, then we will leave. And that's what sales and marketing are there for. They're trying to tell us this is what you need to stay on track. So that is how all of social media is geared. But what does it do to our neurology? What does it do to our physiology?

we're finding more and more that it's screwing up our serotonin, our dopamine, our adrenaline, and our cortisol and others. So remember, serotonin is your happy chemical. Dopamine is basically your pleasure chemical. So when you make dopamine and you get the fix or the hit of dopamine, you will feel less pain. You will feel more flexibility. You will feel euphoric.

you will feel as though you're on top of the world. Now think about that if you were scrolling or kept watching or binge watching and you kept getting a dopamine hit every minute, every 20 minutes. That high amount is starting to be related in biochemistry to those who are basically getting on their motorbike and jumping 40 feet into the air or skydiving or cliff jumping. Those high intensity things

basically exercises or activities, most people try to build up to that. They build their body to it. But they've shown that that kind of activity, literally like cliff diving or riding a motorbike consecutively actually builds muscle because they're stressing their adrenal glands at the same time as doing physical activity. So they're building their muscles and they're using this as a good euphoria.

In some instances, it's a eustress. Now, there's a difference. If they're putting a lot of effort into it, they could be building their muscles and their body at the same time. So they probably will last longer doing that type of adrenaline junkie type activity than if you were being immobile and you're sitting at your desk or at home or even in your car and you're scrolling.

So there's no physical activity or high intensity physical activity give you the high intensity dopamine release. So remember, in neurology, you are trying to correlate and connect the action with the result. So if you have a high intensity input, you desire a high dopamine output, the yin and the yang. So as you're moving forward,

In a higher intensity rate, your body will feel pleasure and it's a reward system. So if you were a soccer player or you're a volleyball player and you put your full effort into it and you're like, oh, I put a lot of work into this, you get dopamine, fully dopamine from that, and at the same time training your body. So you're correlating dopamine.

The connecting pieces, you're seeing the action put together with the result. And that's a really cool thing. Now, if again, you are scrolling or doing something where you don't have to put a lot of physical activity, you are connecting the action of sitting still most of the time.

And being distracted most of the time, like if you're sitting at your desk or you're sitting at the mall or if you're talking to somebody and you know that you can go to the regular coffee shop and you'll see every single person in line looking on their phone, every single person. Or if they're – you've ever seen individuals where they'll have somebody talk to them and they're just looking at their phone, looking up at the person, looking back down, up and down? That's what I'm talking about. The brain knows this, so it correlates low movement –

But you're getting higher dopamine release. So your body is getting trained for I don't have to put high intensity exercise or movement into this. I can still get enough dopamine pleasure. And the companies know this. And that's why they create it that way. No way am I putting them down. They just are very brilliant at social and industrial psychology if you read about it. So if you're sitting still and you're scrolling…

A, you're not burning a lot of good fat cells. You're not burning calories. You're not burning sugars. You're not burning the starches you've eaten probably in the last couple of hours. You're not burning physically and you are using calories. Yes, you are, but you're not using them in the way where your brain is getting used to the routine of doing a good physical activity.

So you start to crave dopamine in that manner. You're sitting still or you're being distracted, but there's not a lot of movement. Why is that harmful to the body? There's a few pathways, but one of the things I want you to realize is that if you're static and if you're still and you're doing all these motions, movement in the body in Chinese medicine is what brings the qi.

And you have to have movement to create better blood flow, better lymph flow, and better digestion. So better lymph flow, better blood flow, and better digestion. So movement is what causes these pathways to basically express themselves. So if you are static and you're doing this with high dopamine output, you'll train your body to...

Basically not move the bowels properly. The lymph gets very swollen internally and inflamed. And you basically will have digestion that is slower but at the same time producing high dopamine. So we're basically training ourselves to be slower moving, more inflamed, and basically having worse digestion.

Now, if you're doing this to your neurology, I want you guys to remember this. If you have this and you're having pleasure while this is happening, you will start to think that this is OK. Like I'm fine. This is great. I'm getting my hit while I'm very stagnant. So in Chinese medicine, we start to have stagnant blood and stagnant chi. And now you're seeing higher rates of.

of digestive issues. You're seeing higher rates of leaky gut, higher rates of lymphatic diseases. You're seeing more prevalence of autoimmune and blood inflammatory problems like MCAS, C-reactive proteins, autoimmune diseases. And there's no movement. There's no drive. Stagnant. When you have the desire to change,

You have to remember that your brain, your psychology is going to correlate directly into your physicality. And it's very important in Chinese medicine. If I'm stagnant, if I don't move forward with my body, you know what you'll train your brain to do? Not move forward in life. And you think, I can think of all these ideas. I can think of all these new developments, but I don't move my body forward.

I don't move my hip flexors. I don't go forward. The more stagnant you are and you don't train your physical body, you will basically train your psychology not to move forward. There is a very good habit of putting your body into the physical activity because you're training that aspect of your body to help heal and train your psychology. So remember that. It's a very important point, guys. So we want to remember that.

We've got to make sure we're moving. We want to take those low effort, high dopamine activities and change them. I'm not picking on any of us who scroll on our phones. I'm not picking on anybody who binge watches. Please don't think that.

But do you see the problems? Like I only get a cup of coffee and I love a cup of coffee. Everybody out there wants to raise their hand and who wants a cup of coffee in the morning? I do. Those small, low effort activities like getting a delicious muffin or something sugary, a good donut or a good cup of coffee, they've been shown to raise dopamine levels and they're easy. You can do that without lots of movement. When we do this, our bodies respond biochemically

to developing dopamine into more adrenaline. So again, when we do these small low effort activities, they will still give us some of the same outputs as a high intensity workout. So if I was doing motorbiking and I was jumping, I got dopamine, that pathway, dopamine,

being produced will turn into noradrenaline which will then be turned into adrenaline so the cycle continues to revolve because your activity or high intensity activity is making adrenaline the low intensity drinking too much coffee eating a doughnut too much scrolling that dopamine that you've trained your body to release eventually turns into adrenaline as well so that means that even though I'm not

putting out a lot of physical activity, I'm still producing higher amounts of adrenaline. Now, guys, think about this. If you're putting out higher amounts of adrenaline, adrenaline helps you to run from the problem, fight the problem. It helps you to put more energy into your muscles so you can actually run the race, puts more blood into your brain so you can actually have better vision to see your opponent and also to outthink your opponent. That's adrenaline output. So

Your pathways are like, okay, I'm doing this for pleasure. It's leading into adrenaline. I'm basically creating tons of adrenaline. And this is great because if you get more adrenaline, you get more strength. You can output. You can do some physical activity. But what happens when you're static and you're not moving, where the chi is sludgy and the lymph? If you are doing an activity that's very static, that adrenaline will turn into anxiety, anxiousness.

That adrenaline will give you the shakes. It'll give you heart palpitations. It will give you the cold, clammy hands and feet. Do you guys see where I'm going with this? If we don't put movement into it, if we don't put a little bit of a higher effort, that adrenaline builds up and it turns into those things that cause us alarm. Higher heart rate. Oh, I feel lightheaded. It's too much adrenaline. That's the pathway. Dopamine, noradrenaline or norepinephrine and adrenaline, which is also known as epinephrine.

So if you're not burning it off, if you're not burning it off properly through physical activity, it could build up and cause those kind of conditions. So we can go into what we call COMT genes and such. I don't want to go through all that. But what I want to do is tell you this, is describe that if you're getting high amounts of adrenaline, it's going to lead to adrenal exhaustion. Literally by scrolling and doing those things, if you're not getting proper exercise and proper movement in your body,

proper nutrition, proper food, that will eventually lead to adrenal burnout. So adrenal glands are continuously making adrenal hormones. You're basically making more adrenaline. You're making more chemicals like cortisol and catecholamines. And your body is literally trying to take all the fuel it can from the food and the things we eat and intake and send it to our adrenal glands to actually produce more of these types of biochemicals.

Now, if you keep scrolling and you're not getting the proper movement and getting the proper nutrition, you don't have a good fuel source or base. So the adrenal glands start to get smaller. They start to shrink. They wear out. Hans Selye, he won a Nobel Prize talking about the four levels of adrenal dysfunction. You basically have reactive, adapting, exhaustion, and then death. So if you...

Keep burning dopamine and it turns into adrenaline. You're going to basically wear out your dopamine receptors and dopamine levels. You're going to wear out your adrenal output. So what happens is if you burn out too early in the day of dopamine, you're going to burn out sooner. You will need something to give you more of a rush, more of a dopamine pleasure hit quicker in the day.

And that all goes back to my cup of coffee analogy. Your body builds up enough fuel from the food you eat the previous day to actually give you the structure and the base to give you better dopamine in the morning. If you burn out quicker, you will know that you need a cup of coffee quicker. Does that make sense? So in the morning, you want to have good amounts of dopamine, which turns into proper amounts of adrenaline so you can get your day of work going and you can move quicker. You know, like I'm getting this stuff done.

But in the morning, if your dopamine starts to burn out quicker, you'll notice that you want more coffee and you want more sugary things. You want more refined sugars. Do you find yourself doing that? That shows that your body is in fatigue. It is in exhaustion. A healthy gut makes such a difference in so many aspects of health.

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You're so tired you have to get to that first cup of coffee. I know you do. I do. I literally think about it. I dream about it. I'm serious. I literally wake up in the morning going, oh, I can't wait to get to that cup of coffee in the morning. I can't wait to basically smell that first cup of coffee because there's something spiritual about it. But if you wake up and you're so tired that you have to get caffeine in your body to open up your blood cells to help your brain think,

If that's the first thing you think of, there's I'm not saying there's anything wrong with that, but you have to be very careful because that means that you could be in exhaustion. So if you're exhausted and you do the cup of coffee that, you know, it helps you feel better and you're eating something sugary with it, you get a bit of a dopamine hit. It starts to burn your adrenal glands out. And then you start to realize, like, I need another cup of coffee in the mid morning. So the cycle kind of repeats itself, but it's all to show you that you possibly could be in third stage exhaustion.

How do we know this? One of the things when I see that in myself or my patients is that I usually get a Dutch test and I will see if the cortisol levels for that individual is very low in the morning. In the morning when you rise, your cortisol levels in response to melatonin and light should wake you up in the morning and you have higher amounts of cortisol in the morning to give you the oomph to get up and go.

But remember, we're already low because we burned our adrenal glands out. Every day should be replenished, but if you're in exhaustion, you're not going to replenish quickly at all. And you guys know that. You guys are like, yeah, that's how I am right now. But that cortisol, because it's also an adrenal gland chemical, along with adrenaline, is going to be higher in the morning, and you should start to die down during the day. But what are we seeing now? We're seeing individuals with very low cortisol in the morning and higher in the afternoon.

Instead of dying down in the day to get you ready for bed, you're seeing people who will stay up all night. Now, when the cortisol levels are very low in the morning, that is a sign to me that you're in adrenal exhaustion. In fact, people will have problems with estrogen toxicity, E1. They'll have DHEA problems and progesterone imbalances if their cortisol is completely out of whack. So when we get that testing done, we see that they're in exhaustion.

I had to totally not just assume but pretty much positively know that that individual is going to have some forms of anxiety, OCD tendencies, ADD, ADHD, basically insomnia. Why? If their body can't even produce enough cortisol, I am pretty certain that they're not producing enough adrenaline, and that would tell me that their dopamine is not being produced.

converted very well into noradrenaline or adrenaline. I know there's a lot of biochemistry, but I want you to know this, that you won't feel pleasure. You will not feel pleasure in the morning. You won't even feel pleasure in the day. So if they're not producing enough of that, they won't feel pleasure, the desire to change. Instead, they will replace it with anxiety and the OCD, ADD, ADHD. Why?

There are certain enzymes in the body that help us take our serotonin and our dopamine and recycle them to use them over again. When our bodies burn out of the serotonin and dopamine, when our receptor sites get damaged, that will cause the body to go into these types of reactions. So anytime somebody comes into the office and they'll go, hey, doc, I've got, you know, myself or somebody, you know, has ADD, ADHD.

You know what I say to them? I know we have a lot of explanations like it is emotions because emotions drive it. I mean I'm completely on board with that.

But the person, the individual is going to have a problem breaking down tryptophan or tyrosine, those two amino acids into serotonin or dopamine. They're going to have a problem with that. This is a pathway. Anytime they say, can you help that? We make it so complicated in our world today. It's like, oh, they have anxiety. Yes, there's chemicals, there's infections, there's toxins or Lyme disease or parasites. They do it because that's a lot of integration. But if they have anxiety, this is a pathway.

Look at the TPH and the TH, the tryptophan and tyrosine hydroxylase. Look at those pathways and put it in your notes. Put in like – there's another one called the DDC. It's a vitamin D receptor. I will tell my people in the show notes to give – I'm going to show you that the TPH, the TH, the DDC, these are genes that help us break down our food into these proper chemicals. And so they're – these genes have to be working properly.

To give us proper amounts of serotonin and dopamine. But when they're basically very injured, that's where you get the anxiety. So I know this is a lot to take in, but get this. What do we do when we have those serotonin and dopamine issues? Like we said, we'll drink more coffee. We eat more foods that are not the best for us. And so our guts are primed to take all the amino acids we take from protein. That's why people do a carnivore diet and take those to make those proper chemicals.

But let's say I eat too many donuts or too many sugary things. That will lead to leaky gut.

Right. Leaky gut is damage to the lining of the gut and for the digestive system. And then you start to have unprocessed food particles going into the bloodstream directly without any type of barrier. You get higher amounts of inflammation from inflammatory chemicals, C-reactive proteins, phagocytic cells that are going through and trying to eat up this debris or any type of immune cells. And it can lead to, again, inflammatory types of conditions like autoimmune. So you have this happening in the body with the leaky gut.

You're going to damage your body so badly in the gut if you're not careful that you will not process amino acids very well. You see what I'm saying? You cannot process the amino acids that you need to actually help you with your brain chemicals. So we're in a culture where we're striving and pushing our bodies to create more dopamine and adrenaline through scrolling and through what we're doing stationary.

And then we're eating more foods and drinking more coffee and doing different things with our diet to actually try to keep our dopamine and serotonin levels up because we still need to feel pleasure. At the same time, we're damaging our digestive system, which can't process the proteins or the amino acids that we need to make the proper chemicals. Those are the things we really need, but we're not eating enough beef. We're not eating enough good proteins and amino acid sources. And this is happening all over the world.

And you guys have seen it. Individuals who – like I'm from – my mom's from Korea. I'm half Korean, and they used to have a big problem in Japan and Korea. They'd have kids that were getting very, very sick because they were eating so many ramen noodles because there was so much wheat and gluten and so much starches in there because it would just feed their dopamine levels and make them feel like they had some energy and gave them a little bit of energy. But they literally – some were passing away, seriously, and they said they had no calories. They had empty calories. That's what's happening.

Individuals are getting sick because the low effort activities could lead to false adrenaline production. Now, again, remember, guys, if you're doing – if you use social media and I'm on social media as your work or job, I get it. I'm saying let's do it healthily. Let's do it in a healthy manner. Try to give yourself limits. Tell yourself how much time you can scroll on your phone. I'm only going to scroll for 15 minutes.

I'm going to use this as my work and not try to just spend over a few hours because you're going to damage your biochemical pathways. Give yourself boundaries. And you know what I mean. You guys know how much you can take or can't take. We're in this culture where people are getting sick. I will say this. I had to spend a lot of time on social media because when I'm not in the office, I'm pretty much working all day. Then I'll jump in here and do some podcasts in the end of the day. And I love giving this information out. But I had to like research it sometimes.

But my adrenal glands are so tired in the end of the day. And I want you guys to raise your hand if this is you. You're so tired in the end of the day. You're like, I don't think I can do anything else. But what happens when you have to do something extra at the very end of the day? You're super tired, super fatigued. And so you're going to go and try to do extra work. But your body is already burned out. It's already burnt through your dopamine and adrenaline for the day. And if you hadn't eaten enough food and drank enough good water –

You're already having going in with a tank that's very empty. So when this occurs, we have to be very wary or not wary, but very alarmed at this. And I say it for me personally, because my brain stops working. It's literally a stop working. You got to you got to recharge. And I will get up in the morning sometimes and I'm so tired because I take my B vitamins and such.

But my body has to gear up a little bit because I've had low cortisol issues and my body has to gear up where I can actually feel a little anxious if I try to look through some Instagram or some forms of like TikTok. Again, I'm not putting them down. It's just if you find yourself going through that anxiety, this is what's happening to you.

So what happens if you need that coffee the first thing in the morning, a cup of coffee just to get going? What if you have a lack of desire to eat food? You just need more sugar. You need more coffee, but you don't even feel thirsty for water. You don't really feel hungry for real food. We have to start building the adrenal glands. I would say that I always advise my patients, write this down.

I love albezia, albezia supreme, A-L-B-I-Z-I-A, albezia supreme, which is a beautiful herb that comes from the bark of a tree called, it's a silt tree in Japan and Korea, and it's called the happy pill. It gives you very good level balanced mentality. It doesn't make you too hyped. It keeps your head calm. It actually gives you a sense of happiness. I love tulsi, which is also known as holy basil.

I love lion's mane. I love ashwagandha. I like these because they're very adaptogenic. The couple few that I love, ramania. It's a great Chinese herb. I love, I mean, echinacea. It has really good anti-anxiety type qualities. These are some of my favorites. Ashwagandha, ramania, echinacea, holy basil or tulsi, lion's mane or albezia.

These are just a few that can build the adrenal glands up. That's why you see so many coffees that have reishi mushroom or linesman because they're adaptogenic. They actually build the adrenals while you're drinking coffee. That's why individuals put the coconut oil, the MCT oil in there because it helps it to absorb better to get to the brain quicker so that you're getting more of that caffeine rush to the head instead of having to drink so much sugars to get that dopamine fill. So when we start to see this, this is what happens. This is the effect. And

Again, this is not to make anybody feel ashamed or unhappy. I'm just saying I want you guys to be healthy. We need to start putting more high-intensity activities in there if we're going to get more adrenaline out of it. We've got to burn off the adrenaline properly, and we need to eat better with good, whole organic foods that are non-GMO, reduce all the refined sugars, all the sugars in a high-sugar diet, get more proteins as possible.

And, you know, for some individuals eat more greens that you need. I like low inflammatory diets. I love high protein food. But there are certain diets that we all eat, but we just need to eat a whole healthy, more balanced meals. Drink plenty of water. Take your vitamins and minerals that you need and you'll build up more adrenaline and more dopamine for the next day. Stop burning yourself out. You don't need to be staying up past dieting.

9 o'clock, 10 o'clock, doing things on your phone. Why? Because in the Chinese medicine world, that is a time. It's going into the fire time. It's there to rebuild the adrenal glands and the testes and the ovaries. It's there to rebuild those organs, those fire organs to get you ready for the next day. Don't rob those organs of energy if you're doing stuff like scrolling on your phone. That will take energy away. It'll make you have anxiety. Stop. Stop.

You're scrolling 7.30, 8.00. You need to wind down. Don't look at the screen too much. Maybe if you do, you have to do something very relaxing. Listen to relaxing music. Do those things that feed your soul. We have to add movement back in. But remember, in the time frame of in the day, do your best not to do those things at night. I always say...

Three to five is like where the kidney time is starting to come up. That's where you start to rebuild the kidneys. You need to do stuff for pleasure. And then when you get to around 530, six, seven ish, that's when you go into the fire time and that's when you need to rebuild. Please look into the Chinese circadian rhythm clock. It's really interesting. It's on, you know, like on not just Instagram, but on social media, they have really good explanations of what the hours of the day mean. So guys, this was a long podcast, but again,

We want to start to rebuild the adrenal glands. And if we're really wanting to help rebuild dopamine, not only do we use those herbs, but I do want you guys to look into vitamin D dependent enzymes and make sure that we rebuild the adrenals, but also keep the proper levels of vitamin D in the blood. And if you're having a problem with dopamine and serotonin and you have adrenal fatigue, remember you have to have the proper amounts of vitamin D

Vitamin A and vitamin K, vitamin D receptors, VDR. You have to look and research that and MTHFR. If you have MTHFR or VDR genes, MTHFR, methylation problems in your genetic past or family line, you can go to MaxGen, Max, M-A-X-G-E-N or 23andMe. That's the one that sells all your info, what I'm talking about. My Happy Genes.

My Happy Genes is great. Dr. Jay Dunn has a great product. But if you have VDR, MTHFR in your genetic past, it may give you problems producing the right amount of serotonin or dopamine, which means you can remedy it. You can get some nutrition facts from those genetic companies. They're awesome. MaxGen or My Happy Genes. Please research it. You can help your anxiety, your ADD. You can help all those things. With all that to say,

The more dopamine that you have that is proper in the morning, you know what you'll have? Pleasure. You'll have desire to change. You'll have the desire to move forward. So we want to have a desire to change. And the only way you're going to have desire is if you actually make the chemical that gives you desire. That's why you feel so tired. One aspect. So guys, I hope this was informative. And if you guys like this kind of content, please like and subscribe. Share this with somebody you know.

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