Episode #212: The Sleep Dopamine Cycle Destroying Your Baseline
March 8, 2026
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Episode #212: The Sleep Dopamine Cycle Destroying Your Baseline
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Episode #212: The Sleep Dopamine Cycle Destroying Your Baseline
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The Sleep Dopamine Cycle Destroying Your Baseline I want you to hear this clearly. You’re not lazy. You’re not broken. Your brain just didn’t finish recovering last night. When you stimulate your system before bed, you spike dopamine at the wrong time. You fall asleep quickly, and I know it feels like it worked. But what your brain needed was sequencing, not shutdown. Your brain has to move through rhythm. Beta settles. Alpha stabilizes. Delta deepens. REM integrates your emotions, your motiv...