Eating certain foods, like those high in protein, and healthy practices like exercising and sleeping the recommended amount can help increase your body’s dopamine levels without medication.

The medications that treat ADHD also tend to increase dopamine levels in the brain. They do this by blocking dopamine reuptake, allowing more of the chemical to stay in neurons. Amphetamines ...

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WE live in a world where we can have whatever we want, whenever we want. Whether this is food or likes on social media, what ...

Medically reviewed by Mary Choy, PharmD Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is a commonly diagnosed neurological ...

Naturally rewarding stimuli (i.e. food, sex, etc) increase the activity of dopamine cells in the mesocorticolimbic dopamine system causing increased dopamine release in brain areas such as the nucleus ...

“Dopamine is just one piece of a much larger puzzle when it comes to mental health and well-being.” — Alison Kane, RD Some foods, on the other hand, increase dopamine production in the brain ...

Stimulant medications increase the amount of dopamine in the synapse, the space between neurons, by preventing the removal, or reuptake, of released dopamine. Approximately three million children ...