Dopamine: A boon or curse?
How is it going, everyone? Welcome back to my blog. Today, we'll discuss a hormone that confuses your mind and indirectly harms your body, and yet you are happy in the end. It's DOPAMINE! Let us first understand what dopamine is It is a neurotransmitter produced in our brain. For a long time, scientists believed that dopamine was a one-time pleasure hormone, which meant that the hormone is responsible for happiness. But latest studies have proven it baseless. Endorphins, another hormone, also a stress buster hormone, are responsible for happiness and other stuff. So, what is dopamine's role then? It is related to the motivation and reward system of our brain. Dopamine gets produced when our brain predicts some activities which give us happiness, and in this anticipation itself, our dopamine levels rise. For example, your friend is about to throw a party at your dream restaurant, and he tells you just one day before it. You haven't made it to the party, but the an...