The Molecule of More: How a Single Chemical in Your Brain Drives Love, Sex, and Creativity―and Will Determine the Fate of the Human Race

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There's a fascinating bit of information around nicotine and it really the only reason people might smoke cigarettes is because nicotine is highly addictive but has no high, so a lot of people are just smoking cigarettes to reduce their craving for nicotine which for most smokers on the first time they smoke it do not enjoy it or get high which isn’t the way with other drugs. In The Molecule of More: How a Single Chemical in Your Brain Drives Love, Sex, and Creativity--and will Determine the Fate of the Human Race, George Washington University professor and psychiatrist Daniel Z. Even an object that is across the room (one that you can see), the desire to go and pick it up is driven by dopamine, because dopamine is the molecule that allows us to imagine a potential future.

The concept of pop science has been reduced to retard level, and this book is the perfect example: it takes a complicated concept, reduces it to simple metaphors until it loses all meaning, and then blabbers for almost 300 useless pages around the exact same idea, using 500 different examples so you don't realise that there's absolutely no new information at all. That we are in many if not most cases, able to make decisions that will most benefit us or will bring about our ruin, whichever argument wins out in our hearts, minds, and souls. Long pursued undergraduate studies at Murray State University and graduate studies at Vanderbilt University. This explains why people with a certain version of DRD4, the gene that codes for dopamine receptors, tend to be more risk-taking, adventurous, and keen to learn new things.This book has to be the authority on dopamine and how it influences human behavior for the mainstream public. Those who had eaten biscuits spent 18 minutes before giving up where those who ate radishes only spent nine minutes on a task. Additionally, this book reaches too far trying to explain too much through too little: love, sex, drug use, creativity, madness, political preference, progress, immigration, you name it - dopamine influences and even determines human behavior in almost any situation.

This is a book I certainly recommend, though it could have been crisper in the early and middle portions. The authors argue provocatively, yet convincingly, that the molecule that allows us to bridge the chasm between them is dopamine.Los capítulos 4 – 6 (CREATIVITY, POLITICS y PROGRESS) no me han parecido tan brillantes y los resultados de alguno de los estudios mencionados (p. Although those assigned to eat radishes did not eat any chocolate cookies, a further experiment was then carried out afterwards which set a task that was quite impossible to do. This awareness has been empowering, enabling me to make conscious choices about where to direct my energy and attention. An interesting book on how we are controlled by hormones (I feel I need to know more about them) with a focus on how dopamine particularly drives us. An example of this is in a study where people in 2 groups were split and divided into being 1 set offered chocolate cookies that had been baked nearby so the room was full of the aroma of freshly baked food, and others were given radishes.

Especially with the rise of social media platforms, a lot of time spent mentally wandering is time spent comparing yourself to others who probably have more of what you want (or what you think you want). nurture plays a big role here too, as anyone has a unique backpack of genes, different brain structures, and all those other things we hardly understand, so there is a huge spectrum of how much influence hormones take on ones´ lives, there is everything from lively, emotional, courageous and charismatic to me. Our brain simply loves to get high and for a long time we couldn´t get good stuff from the outer world ( it must have been terrible) when we were still stonagey and before, but we had those fine centers for own opioids, own cannabinoids, but especially the other hormones that aren´t so fancy.

Meet a molecule whose fingerprint rests upon every aspect of human nature—from desire and drugs to politics and progress. Leyendo The Molecule of More (libro recomendado por el propio Huberman en uno de los episodios del podcast) he tenido la misma sensación ya que parece imposible que un único neurotransmisor, la dopamina, sea la explicación de tantos y tan dispares comportamientos humanos.

Long present a potentially life-changing proposal: Much of human life has an unconsidered component that explains an array of behaviors previously thought to be unrelated, including why winners cheat, why geniuses often suffer with mental illness, why nearly all diets fail, and why the brains of liberals and conservatives really are different. Pe lângă informațiile pe care le-am aflat, am învățat să înțeleg mai bine oamenii din jurul meu, dar și pe mine. The book then goes on to look at politics and how many more liberal leaning people who often are more creative but like change and often have increased rates of marriages are also driven by dopamine which might be one of the reasons why these individuals become more related to their politics and their viewpoint.Thousands of years later, it is the source of our most basic behaviors and cultural ideas―and progress itself.