Managing diet to reduce dopamine levels and stuttering rate
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Managing diet to reduce dopamine levels and stuttering rate As many of you know, Ecopipam is a potentially promising stuttering drug, currently in phase 2 FDA trials. The drug is essentially a dopamine receptor antagonist - its main function is to regulate dopamine levels in your brain. I'm left wondering: can we not achieve similar objectives as this drug via diet? Over many years I have anecdotally noticed that my speech suffers for days after I devour bags of potato chips. Chips, like many comfort foods, spike dopamine levels. It seems from the prevailing 'Dopamine Antagonist Hypothesis' in today's leading science, there is a theory that links excessive dopamine-producing food with stuttering. Do we really just need a 'Dopamine Diet' - not the one paraded by the mainstream media of increasing dopamine - but rather a diet focused on removing select foods in order to ***decrease*** dopamine levels? Is this a matter of combing through our diets? Like with Ecopipam, this wouldn't be a cure, but a helpful tailwind for us all.