TJ Power

And when you eat like a bag of Doritos, for example, you can just nail the Doritos.

Nothing really changes in your satiation.

Whereas when you're eating some chicken, a steak, salmon, fruit, nuts, your brain begins to go, cool, I'm pretty satisfied with that, that was great.

That's the sort of feeling you're wanting to create with food.

Yeah, and that really is serotonin in action.

If the mood stabilizes or improves, it's serotonin that's coming into play there.

And a lot of the cool research comes out of Japan around nature and serotonin.

The Japanese created a concept called forest bathing, which has been really powerful for Japan over the last 20 years.

They created this term called karoshi, which is someone that's really burnt out from intense activity.

experiences within urban environments with work and technology and people that are very burnt out and mentally exhausted and they started prescribing all the way back in 2008 something called shinrin yoku which translates to forest bathing just to see if it would have any impact on their mental state rapidly you see what's called serum serotonin rise within the brain and body and a great scientist called dr keeling has looked into this if you're interested in that real deepening into nature if you search his name of forest bathing it's pretty cool

And it's just really important to understand that we literally spent millions of years walking around in a forest and then now we're not doing that.

Like we could never even get away from it.

Like nature was all there was.

And when we're in a forest or any form of nature, mountains, rivers, parks, the brain effectively is getting a signal that it's home.

It basically thinks I'm at home now.

Like I'm in a safe environment.

The serotonin rises, the nervous system regulates and

One of the big benefits in the modern world is we get very hyper-stimulated by these computers and phones.

And then sometimes if you go and try and sit on the sofa and chill out, like if I told you to just go and sit on the sofa and do nothing after this, your brain would be like really rapidly operating.

It'd be quite hard to just sit and chill.