You realize your source comes from an anti-marijuana campaign that is run by the government? There has been a lot of marijuana misinformation created by the government for the express purpose of frightening kids away from it, classifying it as a schedule 1 drug just the same as HEROIN, COCAINE, AND METHAMPHETAMINE. Overloading dopamine is the way they get kids to fear “drugs”, because kids understand what dopamine is. In fact the cannaboid system is much more complicated than this and marijuana has many active cannaboids (something like 400+). It is just beginning to be studied. So you cannot boil this down to dopamine alone, especially when researchers without government anti-drug agendas suggest the opposite. Keep in mind this is the same government that approved FINASTERIDE as a safe and legal drug for our use and got us into this mess in the first place.
Here’s a link and a graph of some properties of cannaboids (many more exist if you want further info):
forum.grasscity.com/medical-marijuana/373071-properties-cannabinoids-%5Bpic%5D.html
and another
forum.grasscity.com/medical-marijuana/645925-grannys-mmj-list-july-2010-a.html
To the second point, I have seen the same symptoms on a number of other sites. Stopthethyroidmadness has some similar ones. Not all of white collar america is suffering as bad as we are, but many are searching these things online and not broadcasting it to the world. I have a relative that works at the department of health and human services. He said one of the statistics that was brought to his attention when he joined is the high amount of self and fad internet diagnosis. And no wonder, people feel worse and most doctors are arrogant pill-pushing idiots. Just because you were the anti-thesis of these symptoms pre-fin doesn’t mean that the general population is healthy and mirroring your experience. Obesity is constantly rising. The number one calorie source in the USA comes from high-fructose corn syrup in beverages. There are a lot of people out there on “maintenance” medications which slowly wear out the body. I’ve seen a stat that says 1/5 but cannot find it. Before fin I wouldn’t mind discussing society’s ills but honestly I don’t have the energy anymore.
You’re right. Dopamine’s importance cannot be understated. I’m feeling like everything’s importance cannot be understated though. My point is how little we really know. If you find dopamine as a cure and it works for you I’m on it. However I took tyrosine and didn’t get cured. It made me feel good and a little high for a week then it stopped working too. It was very similar to when I first took magnesium. However it didn’t give me full functionality back like marijuana did. I don’t think fin just fucked our dopamine system. I think it went deeper and altered enzyme production that gives the body the ability to make, use, and store energy. It also interrupted our natural hormonal loop which got stuck on the wrong level.
Regarding exercise, I’ve reached a point where the more exercise I do the tighter my muscles get. If it is supposed to upregulate dopamine receptors, why is long term moderate exercise making me feel as if the dopamine is leaving my body?
The biggest problem we all have was a minor knowledge of the human physiology. We took this knowledge and used it not knowing the consequences. Now we’re trying to figure it out by looking at individual solutions when in fact finasteride could have blocked multiple enzymes we don’t even know about down to the cellular level leaving us with ignorance and inability to test.