Dopamine is a neurotransmitter that has several functions. But its main role is to make us motivated to go for things that will help us survive and reproduce.

And if you now go: “but my goal is not to get food and sex!", then you have to understand that there are many subsections of those two, and dopamine taps into all of those as well. 

For example, achieving a career goal will help you get both financial security and status, and thus it will help you be able to get good food and good, secure, shelter. So it would be a direct subcategory under survival. But not only that, more status would obviously also make you more attractive in the eyes of the opposite sex, so that would also fall directly under reproduction.

The point is, if you have dopamine on your side, you have a viciously powerful primordial force with you, and who wouldn't want that?...Since that's really going to make you a driven, productive, beast. I have so much energy to lift, work and enjoy my life now. And you can get that too!

THIS, is why dopamine is the #1, universal currency. It truly reigns supreme.

In short, the ancient dopamine system didn't come equipped with being able to handle all of today's super stimulating dopamine hits. Especially not if we do a poor job of navigating them. So we run the risk of getting 'desensitized' (less sensitive to dopamine).

Very simplistic, this means a poor functioning dopamine system.

And with a poor functioning dopamine system we tend to...

• Lose drive
• Lose excitement
• Lose motivation
• Los self-esteem
• Have a hard time feeling pleasure

You have difficulties achieving or get anything done. And even if you did, you would perhaps not be able to enjoy it - cause of your reward center being numb. It's really a bad place to be.

A dopamine fast is simply a period of time where you deprive yourself of low value dopamine stimulations in order to "reset" your dopamine system, and regain dopamine sensitivity. This can be done in many different ways and it's amazing how well it works!

Without energy and drive you can't really get anything done. And even if you could, you would have a hard time enjoying it, because of the numb dopamine system (it is your reward / pleasure center, after all).

On the other hand; with energy and drive, which you get from having a supercharged dopamine system, you can almost get anything you want, if you really set your mind to it. AND you'll be able to enjoy and feel pleasure from it. This is why dopamine trumps all other currencies!

Dopamine reigns supreme and is truly the number one, universal currency!

In short, with dopamine on your site, you can become powerful beyond belief!

Absolutely. In fact, many people find that dopamine fasting actually helps them stop relapsing. This makes perfect sense, since an upregulted dopamine system will crave less instant gratification. It could potentially also help speed up recovery.