Chuck

Yeah.

We talked about that in the two-parter, the old breastfeeding two-parter.

Yeah, yeah.

Wow, you've got a great memory.

No, I have a terrible memory.

I know you're making fun of me.

There's also the mesolimbic pathway.

We've talked a lot about the limbic system in many episodes.

But reward and emotion, and this is the one that gets all the press because this is the one that has to do with addiction.

Pleasure.

And we're going to talk a lot about reward.

And how reward factors into how dopamine works.

Sure.

So, you know, we talked about misunderstandings about dopamine.

And up until not too long ago, we didn't know a lot about exactly how dopamine worked in the body.

And there was a misguided thought that.

that there was something called volume transmission at work, which was you just sort of, well, you don't flood.

We'll talk about, you know, artificially flooding dopamine, which is also a problem that resulted from this misnomer.

But dopamine just went very slowly.

It was not very specific at all, just kind of washed over the brain.