[Idea] Burn out cortisol receptors?

[Full-time Ascension]

You always hear about burning out dopamine receptors.

What if you could have 1 overwhelming shock of cortisol, then burn out all ur cortisol forever?

Just an idea

 

[Baldingman1998]

Mine are burned. Now I'm never really depressed just emotionless. Beats being sad tbh

 

[Full-time Ascension]

Mine are burned. Now I'm never really depressed just emotionless. Beats being sad tbh

I want to burn mine, it would be definitely more useful for me If I had 0 cortisol, I would be able to focus on my goals more easily

 

[Baldingman1998]

I want to burn mine, it would be definitely more useful for me If I had 0 cortisol, I would be able to focus on my goals more easily

Takes years if chronic depression.

 

[Full-time Ascension]

Takes years if chronic depression.

I wanna do it in 2 seconds

 

[Deleted member 2130]

Psychopaths tend to have low cortisol levels, because they don't feel stress, you need to psychopath-maxx

 

[Danish_Retard]

What if you could have 1 overwhelming shock of cortisol, then burn out all ur cortisol forever?

Just an idea

That's... not how that works bro. Sorry.

If you there to have consistently elevated cortisol levels you may become less sensitive to it, but the price is too high for that to be worth it. And the brain would downregulate the receptors a couple weeks after you returned to normal life anyway.

 

[Full-time Ascension]

That's... not how that works bro. Sorry.

If you there to have consistently elevated cortisol levels you may become less sensitive to it, but the price is too high for that to be worth it. And the brain would downregulate the receptors a couple weeks after you returned to normal life anyway.

How tf is that how it works for dopamine, but not for cortisol? What a cruel world this is

 

[Danish_Retard]

How tf is that how it works for dopamine, but not for cortisol? What a cruel world this is

You're thinking of the analogy of "burnout" in a literal sense.

Let's take a different example; caffeine. Adenosine is the final derivative of ATP, the energy source our neurons use. That means as the brain spends energy adenosine builds up. The way caffeine works is that it occupies adenosine receptors without activating them, the receptors make us sleepy.

To counter this the body simply makes more adenosine receptors, which is why you might notice that some people "need" caffeine to function, because otherwise they have an abnormally high number of adenosine receptors which means they'll be very tired without caffeine.

Though much more complex you can think of dopamine burnout as the reverse process of this, if I have understood what you mean by dopamine burnout correctly.


Also, cortisol can be beneficial:

 

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