TJ Power

Yeah, I mean, they're good things to have. And these chemicals were once thriving when we were living in a more ancestor type lifestyle of waking up, living outdoors, loads of light, hunting, hard physical work, natural food. They were really designed for that experience of life. And a lot of us are experiencing low levels of these chemicals in the modern world.

And that's causing a lot of the mental difficulties we struggle with.

And that's causing a lot of the mental difficulties we struggle with.

And that's causing a lot of the mental difficulties we struggle with.

Yeah, so there is a genetic component to how much your brain will produce of each of these chemicals. Each chemical has what we call a baseline. So you'd have, for example, your dopamine baseline, which is in any given moment, how much dopamine can your brain generate? However, in our modern world, behavior itself can have a massive impact on each of these chemicals.

Yeah, so there is a genetic component to how much your brain will produce of each of these chemicals. Each chemical has what we call a baseline. So you'd have, for example, your dopamine baseline, which is in any given moment, how much dopamine can your brain generate? However, in our modern world, behavior itself can have a massive impact on each of these chemicals.

Yeah, so there is a genetic component to how much your brain will produce of each of these chemicals. Each chemical has what we call a baseline. So you'd have, for example, your dopamine baseline, which is in any given moment, how much dopamine can your brain generate? However, in our modern world, behavior itself can have a massive impact on each of these chemicals.

Say, for example, with dopamine, if you were sitting doing nothing, your dopamine would stay at a pretty stagnant level. If you pulled out your phone and opened a social media feed and started watching videos, your dopamine would rise very, very rapidly. That, for example, is an example of quick dopamine. Then we'd also have other examples of things like slow dopamine, which you would get from,

Say, for example, with dopamine, if you were sitting doing nothing, your dopamine would stay at a pretty stagnant level. If you pulled out your phone and opened a social media feed and started watching videos, your dopamine would rise very, very rapidly. That, for example, is an example of quick dopamine. Then we'd also have other examples of things like slow dopamine, which you would get from,

Say, for example, with dopamine, if you were sitting doing nothing, your dopamine would stay at a pretty stagnant level. If you pulled out your phone and opened a social media feed and started watching videos, your dopamine would rise very, very rapidly. That, for example, is an example of quick dopamine. Then we'd also have other examples of things like slow dopamine, which you would get from,

cleaning your home for 30 minutes, that would be slow dopamine. So there's different behaviors that will impact these chemicals.

cleaning your home for 30 minutes, that would be slow dopamine. So there's different behaviors that will impact these chemicals.

cleaning your home for 30 minutes, that would be slow dopamine. So there's different behaviors that will impact these chemicals.

So we're in direct control of where these chemicals are at with each of the behaviors. we have if you take oxytocin for example that second chemical whenever you come in physical contact with a human so if you hug your kids or your partner for example immediately in that moment oxytocin begins to increase creates feelings of love and connection and safety in your body

So we're in direct control of where these chemicals are at with each of the behaviors. we have if you take oxytocin for example that second chemical whenever you come in physical contact with a human so if you hug your kids or your partner for example immediately in that moment oxytocin begins to increase creates feelings of love and connection and safety in your body

So we're in direct control of where these chemicals are at with each of the behaviors. we have if you take oxytocin for example that second chemical whenever you come in physical contact with a human so if you hug your kids or your partner for example immediately in that moment oxytocin begins to increase creates feelings of love and connection and safety in your body

serotonin something like when you eat natural foods fruits meats veg these kind of foods serotonin increases and there's a good lasting impact of that benefit you'll have an hour or so a few hours where the chemical will rise if you then went through a prolonged period where you weren't stimulating the chemical it'd begin to fall back to baseline but is the idea that you would want to deliberately impact these levels or is the idea to just lead a healthy life and these things take care of themselves

serotonin something like when you eat natural foods fruits meats veg these kind of foods serotonin increases and there's a good lasting impact of that benefit you'll have an hour or so a few hours where the chemical will rise if you then went through a prolonged period where you weren't stimulating the chemical it'd begin to fall back to baseline but is the idea that you would want to deliberately impact these levels or is the idea to just lead a healthy life and these things take care of themselves

serotonin something like when you eat natural foods fruits meats veg these kind of foods serotonin increases and there's a good lasting impact of that benefit you'll have an hour or so a few hours where the chemical will rise if you then went through a prolonged period where you weren't stimulating the chemical it'd begin to fall back to baseline but is the idea that you would want to deliberately impact these levels or is the idea to just lead a healthy life and these things take care of themselves

If I was chatting with a hunter-gatherer, they would have to not even think at all about whether these chemicals were high. It's really important to consider this hunter-gatherer idea because for 99.9% of human history, that's what our brain did. It's a very small percentage of time that we've all sat inside and played on computers and phones.