I get that this is a meme but I want to say something.
Taking straight dopamine would likely not make you happy and could actually fuck you up (assuming it even crossed the blood brain barrier).
Dopamine is used in the reward pathway but it’s also used in lots of other parts of the brain and body which is why you really don’t want to take it raw but instead take chemicals that stimulate its production within the reward pathway.
When dopamine is injected it can help with blood flow when someone is in shock. However, that’s in the microgram range and even those dosages can cause some extreme vasoconstriction leading to possible damage from ischemia.
Assuming someone took a large dose of it, they could possibly end up losing limbs assuming they didn’t have a heart attack and die before the hypoxia started killing cells in their extremities.
I get that this is a meme but I want to say something.
Taking straight dopamine would likely not make you happy and could actually fuck you up (assuming it even crossed the blood brain barrier).
Dopamine is used in the reward pathway but it’s also used in lots of other parts of the brain and body which is why you really don’t want to take it raw but instead take chemicals that stimulate its production within the reward pathway.
When dopamine is injected it can help with blood flow when someone is in shock. However, that’s in the microgram range and even those dosages can cause some extreme vasoconstriction leading to possible damage from ischemia.
Assuming someone took a large dose of it, they could possibly end up losing limbs assuming they didn’t have a heart attack and die before the hypoxia started killing cells in their extremities.