TJ Power

If you find yourself in a situation where you feel like low and deflated and flat and you can't get yourself to take action and do things, it's a very clear sign that dopamine is low and you need something to boost dopamine. You have oxytocin, the connection and the love hormone. If you felt lonely and a little bit unconfident and disconnected, we'd be guided towards oxytocin.

If you find yourself in a situation where you feel like low and deflated and flat and you can't get yourself to take action and do things, it's a very clear sign that dopamine is low and you need something to boost dopamine. You have oxytocin, the connection and the love hormone. If you felt lonely and a little bit unconfident and disconnected, we'd be guided towards oxytocin.

Serotonin has a massive impact on our mood and energy. So if you're tired or a bit sad, serotonin would be beautiful. And then endorphins have this incredible function of de-stressing our brain. In our modern world, the cortisol hormone has become the big stress hormone, which is really accurate. It is a stress hormone.

Serotonin has a massive impact on our mood and energy. So if you're tired or a bit sad, serotonin would be beautiful. And then endorphins have this incredible function of de-stressing our brain. In our modern world, the cortisol hormone has become the big stress hormone, which is really accurate. It is a stress hormone.

But endorphins, as we'll go on to explore, also play a vital role in calming our brain when it's experienced extreme stress.

But endorphins, as we'll go on to explore, also play a vital role in calming our brain when it's experienced extreme stress.

Effectively, this all comes down to this concept called phasic and tonic dopamine release. This psychologist called Dreyer really popularized this back in 2011. And what you basically see is when we interact with social media, you get a rapid rise in dopamine, which is why when you open the social media app, you immediately feel extremely good.

Effectively, this all comes down to this concept called phasic and tonic dopamine release. This psychologist called Dreyer really popularized this back in 2011. And what you basically see is when we interact with social media, you get a rapid rise in dopamine, which is why when you open the social media app, you immediately feel extremely good.

Just to put that into context, the whole of DOS is built upon something called the evolutionary mismatch hypothesis. This was created by Gluckman. And it's basically this idea that our brain spent 300,000 years evolving out in nature, developing these chemicals to help us survive and thrive in that kind of environment, hunting and making fire and building shelter and looking after one another.

Just to put that into context, the whole of DOS is built upon something called the evolutionary mismatch hypothesis. This was created by Gluckman. And it's basically this idea that our brain spent 300,000 years evolving out in nature, developing these chemicals to help us survive and thrive in that kind of environment, hunting and making fire and building shelter and looking after one another.

And with dopamine specifically, the only way we were capable of accessing it was through hard, challenging activities. We had to effectively earn the increase in dopamine. And we might have experienced that like once or twice a day, like the fire finally lit or we successfully caught some food or whatever it may be.

And with dopamine specifically, the only way we were capable of accessing it was through hard, challenging activities. We had to effectively earn the increase in dopamine. And we might have experienced that like once or twice a day, like the fire finally lit or we successfully caught some food or whatever it may be.

In the modern world, this social media example, you experience that same level of dopamine increase, but you experience it instantaneously within a few seconds. Because it rises so fast, it then causes this really significant crash in dopamine because your brain tries to get back to balance. And so many of us struggle today with this idea of just taking action on what we want to do.

In the modern world, this social media example, you experience that same level of dopamine increase, but you experience it instantaneously within a few seconds. Because it rises so fast, it then causes this really significant crash in dopamine because your brain tries to get back to balance. And so many of us struggle today with this idea of just taking action on what we want to do.

Like we're sitting there and we think, yeah, I need to do that bit of work. Or yeah, I need to go and cook myself a healthy meal. Or yeah, I need to go and do some exercise. But we can't be bothered. And we just like procrastinate it. And that's heavily connected to this overstimulation through social media.

Like we're sitting there and we think, yeah, I need to do that bit of work. Or yeah, I need to go and cook myself a healthy meal. Or yeah, I need to go and do some exercise. But we can't be bothered. And we just like procrastinate it. And that's heavily connected to this overstimulation through social media.

It would be experienced within our behavior. There's actually this big topic you get seen talked about on TikTok called ADHD paralysis. And they also have this phrase called rotting on TikTok where people literally can't move. They can't get themselves to move.

It would be experienced within our behavior. There's actually this big topic you get seen talked about on TikTok called ADHD paralysis. And they also have this phrase called rotting on TikTok where people literally can't move. They can't get themselves to move.

dopamine right at the core of its function even impacts our motivation to physically move our body and if you're in that state where you just can't get yourself to do anything and loads of us experience this like it's a saturday morning we think oh i don't have work today so i'm going to scroll my phone way more and we sit there and we get into this doom scrolling cycle of feeling that elevation in dopamine this rapid increase of dopamine

dopamine right at the core of its function even impacts our motivation to physically move our body and if you're in that state where you just can't get yourself to do anything and loads of us experience this like it's a saturday morning we think oh i don't have work today so i'm going to scroll my phone way more and we sit there and we get into this doom scrolling cycle of feeling that elevation in dopamine this rapid increase of dopamine