The Mars Venus Wellness Solution for Focus
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creating the need for more drugs, while healing the brain upregulates brain receptor sites.
Healing the Brain Dopamine receptors are designed to up regulate but only if the over-stimulation stops. Being fully relaxed and rested helps the receptors to return. Brain injuries, high stress levels or continued use of stimulant drugs prevent the automatic up-regulation of brain receptor sites. For example if you have an exciting evening, lots of dopamine gets produced. The next morning you may feel a little flat or bored but after a few hours you are back to normal. You feel better because after a good nights sleep, your receptors have up-regulated. But if you drank a lot or had too much sugar, the degree of brain injury delays the up-regulation of dopamine receptors and you have a hangover. When a child or adult takes an ADHD stimulant drug, down regulation occurs. As the number of receptor sites on each brain neuron decrease, more stimulation is required to experience focus, pleasure, interest or motivation. To sustain focus, pleasure, interest and motivation, the brain craves John Gray, Ph.D.
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