The Science of Sex | dopamine

Dopamine... it’s like a drug
   * Referred to as the “reward signal”
   * When you fall in love your brain is flooded with dopamine, and is signaled for more
   * The more you get the higher you feel
   * People in love have higher levels of dopamine
   * Helps the brain process emotions, pleasure, pain
   * Makes you want to repeat an experience if it once caused a sense of well-being
   * Makes you feel as if you need something repeatedly to be happy or you desire something for continued pleasure
   * Makes you dependant on something a prisoner to a habit
   * Causes intense pleasure
   * Skyrockets during sex 

  Buried in the brain when you are...
   * Excited
   * Doing something that is spontaneous or adventurous
   * If you are taking a big risk and your heart is racing a thousand miles per hour