Dopamine deficiency in eunuchs
Posted: Mon Apr 24, 2023 4:10 am
Dopamine is an important hormone and neurotransmitter in our brains. It communicates chemical messages between nerve cells in your brain or between your brain and the rest of your body. It plays an important role in many of your bodys functions, including memory, motivation, learning, reward and movement.
Dopamine deficiency means having a low level of dopamine. Low dopamine levels are linked with depression. It may also make you more susceptible to taking risks or developing addictions.
Lowered dopamine levels make you "lazy". You might not be able to concentrate on tasks long enough to complete them, you loose interest in things and projects that created excitement (reward) before you feel less reward on doing anything (less motivated).
Of my own chemcastration trials (4 periods up to 4,5 months so far) I can say that loosing motivation is real. Also feeling "the world becoming bland or grey" like there is very little interesting left in the world. Many or even most castrated men have reported similar effects here on EA. Of my own experience again I can tell that as T levels started to rise, my world perception became much more colorful, I started to feel very romantic even,little things that I started to notice in my surrounding again made me happy, so that I had desire to write poems even. But in a month or so it faded. Rise in dopamine levels might just explain romantic and colorful feelings in teen age. (my own assumption, based on my repeated experience).
At the time of my chemcastration trials I did not know about dopamine relation to testosterone, but I knew some negative effects that low T might cause. Like depression, and I was very motivated to avoid that in order not to ruin my eunuch experience. Thus I chose for my castration trial a time period when I am physically most active. As physical activity remedies and prevents myriad of health and mental health problems. Like bad sleep, gaining fat, constant stress, eating too much, having too high cortisol, sugar, cholesterol etc. in your blood.
Despite I had almost insomnia at the beginning of castration, having plenty of rest was crucial to my wellbeing. Another factor that helps to rise your dopamine for a short period in a day is coffee or cafeine. And coffee worked best after having plenty of rest. These mornings were especially happy for me. Waking up with full bladder and no morning wood, feeling rested, and then after coffee feeling energy and joy in things and working on my projects. Summer time is generally much more happier time, as I socialize a lot more and spend a lot of time outside. Having lenghty walks in the forest etc. Yes, with castration my physical abilities are reduced, and there are problems with motivating myself to go to walk if it is not absolutely neccesary. Still I put myself into situations where I can not avoid doing something physical. So that the motivation will come from other sources than my internal motivation, which I obviously lack due to low dopamine. Mentally the most difficult part is to start, to go outside.
So, how to increase your dopamine levels:
Eat a diet thats high in magnesium and tyrosine-rich foods. These are the building blocks of dopamine production. Tyrosine is an amino acid. Its absorbed in your body and then goes to your brain, where its converted into dopamine. Foods known to increase dopamine include chicken, almonds, apples, avocados, bananas, beets, chocolate, green leafy vegetables, green tea, lima beans, oatmeal, oranges, peas, sesame and pumpkin seeds, tomatoes, turmeric, watermelon and wheat germ.
Engage in activities that make you happy or feel relaxed. This is thought to increase dopamine levels. Some examples include exercise, meditation, yoga, massage, playing with a pet, walking in nature or reading a book.
Here is my advice to people who plan to stay no T eunuchs.
Think through your path from normal male to no T eunuch. Take all the possible negative effects into consideration. Have a chemical castration trial no less than 3 months. Becoming an eunuch is a life changing experience. Change your life style BEFORE chemical castration and real castration as you will be overwhelmed with effects and changes after castration. It is much more difficult to start physical activity after loosing your T. You are way less motivated to do that. As castration will change your life considerably take into consideration to change your work, so that your work will either allow you more physical activity outside your work and better if your work expects some physical activity already. If you do computer programming work, you can not do your work 16h a day anymore. Especially when you are older than 30. Choose a pleasant hobby outside where is a lot of physical activity, but does not require high performance. The most important requirement is, that you enjoy what you do. Change your job, if that is needed for your new enjoyable hobby. And only then, after your pleasant routines are in place, may be you should wait a year after changing your life style, only then you can go on and start a chemcastration trial to see how you will tolerate negative effects and how much you will gain from positive effects. Btw., physical activity reduces osteoporosis and muscle loss. That is why astronauts in space need to train every day.
After being castrated for longer period, your body slowly compensates the loss of T. Insomnia will be less, negative feelings from sudden hormonal change will be less, you will learn to cope with your different abilities. Physical activity and regular activity patterns and day routines makes it much more easier to cope with negative effects from castration, making your overall eunuch experience much more pleasant and desireable and not miserable.
Dopamine deficiency means having a low level of dopamine. Low dopamine levels are linked with depression. It may also make you more susceptible to taking risks or developing addictions.
Lowered dopamine levels make you "lazy". You might not be able to concentrate on tasks long enough to complete them, you loose interest in things and projects that created excitement (reward) before you feel less reward on doing anything (less motivated).
Of my own chemcastration trials (4 periods up to 4,5 months so far) I can say that loosing motivation is real. Also feeling "the world becoming bland or grey" like there is very little interesting left in the world. Many or even most castrated men have reported similar effects here on EA. Of my own experience again I can tell that as T levels started to rise, my world perception became much more colorful, I started to feel very romantic even,little things that I started to notice in my surrounding again made me happy, so that I had desire to write poems even. But in a month or so it faded. Rise in dopamine levels might just explain romantic and colorful feelings in teen age. (my own assumption, based on my repeated experience).
At the time of my chemcastration trials I did not know about dopamine relation to testosterone, but I knew some negative effects that low T might cause. Like depression, and I was very motivated to avoid that in order not to ruin my eunuch experience. Thus I chose for my castration trial a time period when I am physically most active. As physical activity remedies and prevents myriad of health and mental health problems. Like bad sleep, gaining fat, constant stress, eating too much, having too high cortisol, sugar, cholesterol etc. in your blood.
Despite I had almost insomnia at the beginning of castration, having plenty of rest was crucial to my wellbeing. Another factor that helps to rise your dopamine for a short period in a day is coffee or cafeine. And coffee worked best after having plenty of rest. These mornings were especially happy for me. Waking up with full bladder and no morning wood, feeling rested, and then after coffee feeling energy and joy in things and working on my projects. Summer time is generally much more happier time, as I socialize a lot more and spend a lot of time outside. Having lenghty walks in the forest etc. Yes, with castration my physical abilities are reduced, and there are problems with motivating myself to go to walk if it is not absolutely neccesary. Still I put myself into situations where I can not avoid doing something physical. So that the motivation will come from other sources than my internal motivation, which I obviously lack due to low dopamine. Mentally the most difficult part is to start, to go outside.
So, how to increase your dopamine levels:
Eat a diet thats high in magnesium and tyrosine-rich foods. These are the building blocks of dopamine production. Tyrosine is an amino acid. Its absorbed in your body and then goes to your brain, where its converted into dopamine. Foods known to increase dopamine include chicken, almonds, apples, avocados, bananas, beets, chocolate, green leafy vegetables, green tea, lima beans, oatmeal, oranges, peas, sesame and pumpkin seeds, tomatoes, turmeric, watermelon and wheat germ.
Engage in activities that make you happy or feel relaxed. This is thought to increase dopamine levels. Some examples include exercise, meditation, yoga, massage, playing with a pet, walking in nature or reading a book.
Here is my advice to people who plan to stay no T eunuchs.
Think through your path from normal male to no T eunuch. Take all the possible negative effects into consideration. Have a chemical castration trial no less than 3 months. Becoming an eunuch is a life changing experience. Change your life style BEFORE chemical castration and real castration as you will be overwhelmed with effects and changes after castration. It is much more difficult to start physical activity after loosing your T. You are way less motivated to do that. As castration will change your life considerably take into consideration to change your work, so that your work will either allow you more physical activity outside your work and better if your work expects some physical activity already. If you do computer programming work, you can not do your work 16h a day anymore. Especially when you are older than 30. Choose a pleasant hobby outside where is a lot of physical activity, but does not require high performance. The most important requirement is, that you enjoy what you do. Change your job, if that is needed for your new enjoyable hobby. And only then, after your pleasant routines are in place, may be you should wait a year after changing your life style, only then you can go on and start a chemcastration trial to see how you will tolerate negative effects and how much you will gain from positive effects. Btw., physical activity reduces osteoporosis and muscle loss. That is why astronauts in space need to train every day.
After being castrated for longer period, your body slowly compensates the loss of T. Insomnia will be less, negative feelings from sudden hormonal change will be less, you will learn to cope with your different abilities. Physical activity and regular activity patterns and day routines makes it much more easier to cope with negative effects from castration, making your overall eunuch experience much more pleasant and desireable and not miserable.