NEUROSCIENTIST: 'You Will NEVER BE ADDICTED Again'

Neuroscientist Andrew Huberman explains how to quit any addiction in just 14-30 days.
Andrew Huberman is an American neuroscientist and associate professor in the Department of Neurobiology at the Stanford University School of Medicine who has made many contributions to the brain development, brain plasticity, and neural regeneration and repair fields.

Speaker: Andrew Huberman

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[omarsindbad]

I'm 42 yrs old now. I've Been a heavy addict since I was 16, 3 years ago, I Lost my wife and daughter because of heavy porn use . The guilt almost killed me, so I said enough and decided to escape from this shithole. I read a ton of books (the only one that changed me was "Befapless" because it had the most realistic steps for quitting), joined communities(like "r/nofap"), and gave it all to quit.
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I'm clean for 3 years now. I feel regret every day about the time that passed.
I wasted my life. I wish I hadn't. God, I wish I hadn't.
If you're young reading this, please do anything at all necessary to overcome this ASAP!

[fionazerbst]

Meditate, exercise, get into nature, paint, read, avoid drugs, alcohol, sugar, social media. Yes, it can be done! 😊

[Someonelikekanye]

I remember after a month of no porn, extremely limited masturbation, and daily 3-5 minute cold showers I always felt extremely energetic and grounded. I felt in control of my own emotions and over all life. I’m gonna get back to this.

[SavageSoul]

Actual Summary of video:
-Dopamine is limited in supply. Baseline of dopamine determines how you feel longterm.
-Any form of pleasure-> peaks in dopamine, drop in baseline after.
-A low baseline makes you feel uninterested in low dopamine releasing tasks so you seek more exciting things which leads to even lower dope baseline.
-Understand that you can manage your dopamine to control those peaks and drops in ways that will keep your baseline high long term and short term.
-High baseline-> high motivation and satisfaction



Suggested method to stop addiction: Go told turkey or limit dopamine evoking behaviour.
My suggestion: Replace high dopamine activity with lower dopamine activity and keep decreasing until you are where you want to be.

[ZIR]

I’m a 1996 kid. First part of my childhood was without a phone or internet. Second part was when mobile phones became a thing, computers became thin, wifi became a thing and then online porn became a thing.

Sometimes I feel sorry for kids these days. They will never know how good we had it! Before all of this BS the internet has brought. New age problems.

[mld]

I am a sugar addict to a ridiculous point and I’m a healthcare provider. My goal is giving up sugar this year. If I don’t accomplish anything else that’s a big one. This is so helpful and exposing the reality of addiction. Thank you so much.

[raphbarney]

This explains why in society we’ve seen such a huge increase in “mental illness” now I’m not saying that it isn’t a thing but with the availability of tech that peaks our dopamine and is highly addictive, we get more people that are diagnosed as depressed or anxious and like he said ADHD

[shanzogreen]

So to cure addiction is to stop being addicted to whatever you’re addicted to. Got it 👍

[APOLLINAIREBARTHOLOMIEU]

Psychedelics are just an exceptional mental health breakthrough. It's quite fascinating how effective they are against depression and anxiety. Saved my life.

[Neil_MALTHUS]

You've just got to know to take regular breaks and savour peace and quiet (and nature). I used to smoke and smokers have to realise that the 'high' a cigarette gives you is just taking you to the kind of level a non-smoker spends half his life around. Once that cigarette finishes, your mood then spirals downwards until you restart the cycle and have another cig. Now, I'm addicted to 10-mile walks before breakfast which are helping with healing the damage I took on to my lungs and heart (amongst other areas).

[harrymills]

$o you're saying the key to beating addiction is to cease the activity to which you're addicted. Genius.

[mackenzierivercasey]

I just worked out for the first time in five months and really if I'm being honest, I'm being more serious about it than I have in over a year. I turned to alchohol and yes still bought beer tonight even after my workout....but it just doesn't hit the same because my body is already high off of my natural dopamine release from the brain. I believe if I keep this up within a week I won't be buying my after work beers any more....they were originally just every few weekend beers, then over a few years every weekend beers, then through covid....every day beers. So I know I lived most of my life without beer....time to get back to baseline! Thank you so much! Exercise, being outside and walking and biking, and being creative have always been my original and READING! I miss doing that!

[laggingjaeger]

I've been trying to regulate my dopamine baseline for a pretty long time now, and I believe I'm in a pretty good place, but not ideal. Problem is, it's really hard to follow through with these commitments since life usually doesn't give you the respite required for you to heal. There's no time to limit yourself and reset your baseline when there's always always stuff to do. So next best option? Find low domapinergic activities you enjoy. For me it turned out to be calisthenics and cooking, especially if it's a new recipe. I still entertain unhealthy high dopaminergic activities, but they are slowly falling out of my routine, as I both actively avoid them and also don't hit the same highs while entertaining them. This is a long and hard process, but it really has brought more joy to my life and kept my mental health in control.

[taldofrances]

So abstinence is the key. Seems like a fight you ll never win but we need to understand that feeling it s temporary. So ask yourself "Am I ok with myself in my actual state?" If your answer it s no start to imagine the person that u want to become. Visualize it! Are you happy? Smiling? Making the people you Love happy being around you? Are you providing, excelling, resolving problems? As Jordan Peterson said : "Don't sacrifice who you could be in the name of who you are."
For myself I m actually stuck. I left the job I hated to learn new skills and start a new career. I m in the point where I know I need excelence to achieve my goals. But as a drug addict (cigaretts, masturbation and sugar addict and ex alchool, weed and coke addict), I raised my brain as a spolish kid. Can t handle borrowness and Have no discipline. I m not ok with myself. Who I am it s not who I want to be. I m 40 years old, but game on bitch! If u r Reading those words and having same kind of issues Just join me. Let s become our best version and leave this world a lil bit better it was! God bless you Brothers and sisters !

[hikingwiththeshackletons]

I have a YouTube channel & I fell into the trap of constantly checking if I new subscribers and felt bad when I didn’t, I would make a video and post it and if it didn’t do well I got depressed and wondered why, so I started second guessing myself and making videos that I thought the audience would like rather than just posting videos of what I enjoyed, and this led me to not enjoy the actual activity I was filming, I was doing it for YouTube rather than for myself and fell out of love with it, I am getting better now, I only film occasionally now and actually have begun to enjoy the activity for what it is, my passion. It has had a profound effect on me and I’m working through it. I know this sounds trivial but it took me to a very dark place.

[aginor]

This is why meditation is extremely important. Among the multitudes of benefits a practiced meditator will experience, at the very least it allows the conscious mind to rest and recover from constant overstimulation. It is also why meditation is so difficult for many people. It can be extremely uncomfortable to take a break from that stimulation and be content doing nothing but breathing and feeling your body. This calm and stillness can eventually induce a parasympathetic state similar to when you sleep, which is when the body does the most healing. Without enough sleep and meditation, the body can never fully recover from compounding long term damage.

[jimkeogh]

Thank you for easily the clearest explanation of addiction/ compulsive behavior and corresponding depression. I can sum up the lesson by considering the importance of a balanced life.

[gas_monkeey]

Learning about dopamine and feeling exactly what he's talking about is giving me a spike of dopamine. I'm addicted to herring the facts from huberman, he helps me to understand and confirm how and why the way i feel.

[mdzmdz]

I love these shorts. They are streamlined and to the point. Ty

[Akuma-jxdr]

I’m an ex amphetamine user and there are a few things that make quitting much easier. 1. L-tyrosine, potassium, and b vitamins in the day, l-tyrosine is an amino acid that helps restore natural levels of dopamine and the vitamins are to replenish the depleted vitamins in the body. 2. 5-htp, magnesium and trazadone at night to help replenish serotonin levels and sleep properly. None of these substances are addictive and help detox not feel sooo horrible that you go get more of the drug. As a matter of fact, what took weeks to recover when I didn’t take these supplements only took a few days. Day 3 withdrawal barely even tired and went to work like normal. Hopefully this helps someone out there because it sure helped me.