Dr. Ben Rein

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The Liz Moody Podcast · Stanford Neuroscientist: THIS Is The Secret To Living Longer (It's Not Diet Or Exercise) · 10 Jun 2026 podcast

And so those are like the other two dominoes that like the oxytocin falls and it tips over those dominoes.

And when you have this combination, it's incredibly powerful.

And the only drug that has been shown to activate the same brain system is MDMA or ecstasy.

What that says to me is one, there's an explanation for why it feels good to hang out with your friends.

And number two,

It suggests how important it has been for our survival evolutionarily that the brain wrapped social interactions in this like intense euphoric neurochemical pathway.

Yeah, this is an oversimplification, but it's like you're microdosing MDMA when you're hanging out with your friends.

And, you know, when you're laughing, you're having a good time, like it's good for you and it makes you feel good.

That's such an interesting point.

There's a bunch of different types of psychedelics and they all kind of do different things.

But like the classic ones like psilocybin or mushrooms and like LSD, DMT, they all act on primarily on this one serotonin receptor, serotonin 2A.

And then downstream of that, it drives neuroplasticity.

So it's possible that social connection, if it drives serotonin release, which there does seem to be a lot of evidence for that, could be driving neuroplasticity.

But I...

I wonder what the net effect of that is.

It's like, is there any benefit to there being neuroplasticity tied into your connections?

Maybe it's helpful to be able to kind of adapt to changing social environments, but it maybe seems like more of just a kind of byproduct than like an intentional thing.

Yeah, I literally just gave a talk yesterday where I actually reframed it this way, where I said, imagine that I was coming up on stage here to say, I'm a neuroscientist for the last decade.

I've been leading research.

And as a result of this research, we discovered this new drug.

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