Dopamine | A Happiness Hormon | Best ways to Increase Dopamine Level Naturally

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Dopamine - A Happiness Hormon 

Are you feeling Demotivated negative and facing stress, tension or having not Sufficient energy to do any work? These are may be the symptoms of lack of Secretion of Dopamine molecules in your brain, which tend to Decrease the Dopamine Level in your body. Which leads to Pain, stress, and another mental health issues.


In this Article we are going discuss on the topic Dopamine, or it's meaning, Importance and there consequences. And at the end we are going to share Best Seven way's to increase the Dopamine level Naturally.

What is Dopamine?

Dopamine is also Known as 'happiness hormones'.

Dopamine gives sense of satisfaction to our mind after accomplishing any task. In Simple word, Dopamine is the molecule which responsible for the regulation or secretion of prolactin in brain, Prolactin is the responsible for the problem solving, brain evaluation, Decision making and the motor skill function of body.

Scientific Explanation of Dopamine:

Dopamine Structure

The proper detailed Explanation of Dopamine is not stated yet. Even the Scientists actively Researching on the Dopamine molecule and don’t even understand them completely yet. But for Current a day’s, we can Concluded that the Dopamine is a Neurotransmitter which produces by the Brain that Plays an essential role in the body to make it healthy or motivated and to feel positive.

For an average person who interested in mental health or Pleasure, it is a waste of time to focusing on molecules like dopamine, Serotonin and norepinephrine. For Such people the simple non-Scientific Explanation of "The sense of pleasure, fun, Curiosity and drive or some other Psychological phenomena is the result of Dopamine."

Symptoms of  deficiency of Dopamine level

Some of the most common symptoms of Low Dopamine level in our body are:

1. Poor Coordination
2. Less motivated or Demotivated
3. Difficulty in Concentration
4. Poor movement
5. Feeling stress and pain

Need to Enhance the Dopamine level

Since, Low dopamine level can lead to health issues (i.e. Sadness, Stress, depression and feel negative or demotivated etc). So, Good level of Dopamine molecule in our body is essential to leave happy and joy-full life without having any stress or tension.

Fortunately, there are numerous ways to increase or to maintain dopamine level in our body without taking any medicine or any medical treatment.

Now, take a look at the History of Human Culture and See what People Have Done over the years to enhance or to improve their mental health issue.

1. Getting proper Diet

2. Get enough Sleep

3. Be Organized 

4. Do Regular Exercise

5. Take a cold shower

6. Get massage

7.  Meditation

8. Make some hobbies – Reading, Writing, travelling and cooking etc.

9. Engage with family, friends, Relatives and even Strangers on the Regular basis.

10. Maintain an active Social network.

Consequences of low dopamine level

If our body is deficient in dopamine level, these can lead to imbalance the healthy life and cause many problems. There are some Consequences of low dopamine level, which are stated below.

1. Lack of focus
2. Apathy
3. Sugar Carving
4. Lower motivation
5. Depression
6. Moodiness
7. Difficulty in Concentration etc.

Effect of Excesses of Dopamine (DA) Level 

Very high level of dopamine make you feel top of the world

Since, Dopamine is a result for the behaviour brain and body, it essential to ensuring thar you have good Dopamine level in your body.

Some of the common Affect of Excesses of Dopamine are:

1. Addiction 
3. Hallucinations
4. Delusions
2. Obesity

Anything Addicting like nicotine, caffeine and Alcohol etc are very effective at increasing dopamine levels and can be the root cause of addicted behaviour in our life.

Best ways to increase the Dopamine level Naturally.

Now, A day Everyone Busy in their life and no one has enough time to focusing on their Health and Mental health issues. So, it become difficult to maintain healthy life stress without taking any medicine. Since use of any anything in excess can affect negative same here with medicine (Use to increase dopamine level for healthy life) So that should be neglected. There are numerous ways to resolve several mental health issues which can be easily done in our life by making small change in our daily life.


1. Getting Proper Diet

A Cup of Black Coffee once in a day reduces Stress

To maintain Dopamine level Naturally in Body, eat foods which are rich in Tyrosine.  Basically, Tyrosine is an amino acid that is naturally produces in body from another amino acid name as Phenylalanine.

Tyrosine can be found Easily in many foods, especially in cheese (where first it was discovered). Foods which Contain Tyrosine are Almonds, Bananas, Eggs, Chicken and Avocados etc.

There are so many foods which can helps to increase the dopamine level by including them in Diet plan. Like Black Coffee, Green Tea, Sea Food, Chocolate’s, Nut’s and Green Vegetables etc.


2. Get Enough Sleep

To ensuring that our brain increases dopamine level naturally, we make it sure that we are getting enough sleep. While we are sleeping our body get chance to repair and renew the body cells and it helps to wash away the toxins which comes in our body in day Life.

During Sleeping the nerve cell connection are active and constantly self-renewing. Lack of proper sleep may cause to reduce the concentration of neurotransmitter, including Dopamine and their Receptor.


3. Do Regular Exercise

Jogging stimulate the release of Endorphins
(Work to reduce pain and Stress)

A Studies shows that the doing Exercise or workout may stimulate the release of Endorphins. Which Is chemical produced by the brain in body to relieve pain and stress or boost happiness. Endorphins is also the most popular happiness hormone as the Dopamine.

Endorphins also help to maintain the dopamine level in our body which could be maintained on the basses of Regular Exercises.

A Regular Exercise Doesn’t mean Expending number of hours in Gym on treadmill. It can achieve by walking and by doing motor skill work on regular basses.
The Same work can be done in our body by taking Drugs name Opioids. Basically, Opioids release the feeling of happiness and relive the pain and Stress.


4. Make Some Hobbies

We all aware about that the hobbies are the work gives sense of pleasure to our mind and feel happy. So, to reduce stress and pain made some Hobbies like listening to music, writing, reading and cooking etc.

Specially, The Listening to music refresh our mind and gives pleasure feeling, reduces stress and help with focus and concentration. A Research shows that A person having any hobby having less stress. Thus, hobbies help to achieve the Dopamine level.

5.  Learn to meditate

Meditation is the key of 'Peaceful Mind'

Over the thousands of year ago the power of meditation was shown. Meditation is the key to get relief from stress and tension or to increase the concentration Power
During meditation session it was discovered that the dopamine release in body was increased by up to 65%. Especially for the meditation session of Yoga Nidra.

6.  Get massage

It is scientifically proven that the effect of stress can be reduces by massage therapy and helps to body to increase dopamine level approx. to 30% while decreasing Stress Harmon named as cortisol. Because of that it also suggested by doctor’s that one should get massage therapy once to get stress free.

7.  Spending time in Nature

A study’s shows that the person spend at least 10 minutes in bright sunlight exposure experiences a blood flow increases in their Dopamine-dominated area of the brain.
Or we Also know that the person leaving in villages, hill-station and area’s close to nature having less stress and leaving happier life. Because of rich of dopamine molecules in their mind, which helps to maintain dopamine level in their body.

Conclusion

With practice (as discussed above), our brain Automatically produces enough amount of Dopamine molecules in our body and help to maintain appropriate Dopamine Level. Which help us to live stress free Life with full of Happiness.

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