Dr. Sue Varma

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1,488 appearances 2 recordings 2 series first heard May 2026 last heard 23 Jun

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unPAUSED with Dr. Mary Claire Haver · Train Your Brain To Thrive Through Menopause · 23 Jun 2026 podcast

So I basically had come up with these eight pillars.

What do these people do?

How can I learn?

Because I don't consider myself a natural born optimist, right?

And I learned when we wouldn't know that at the time, but years later that there's a genetic component to optimism.

Right.

Like only 25 of us or 25 percent of us are born optimistic.

The rest, 75 percent have to learn it.

And this genetic component is that the OXTR gene or the oxytocin receptor gene.

Wait, what?

Yeah.

There is a gene for optimism?

There is.

And, you know, you doing the work that you do, oxytocin is such a part of.

Yeah.

Right.

And who would have ever thought that?

Explain to our audience what oxytocin is.

Yeah, so oxytocin is a cuddle and bonding hormone that you see, you know, in orgasm, in cuddling with your baby, and it's what bonds us.

And oxytocin, you're hugging a friend, like it's the social glue, the connection in our society, bonding between mother and child, breastfeeding, sex, all of it.

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