TJ Power

Very conveniently with the acronym, and this is just by chance, dopamine is really the first chemical to work on because it's the motivational chemical that will enable you to have the desire to do things with the others.

So dopamine, because it's just getting so significantly influenced by the modern world, it's the only chemical we've learned how to hijack and alter artificially.

oxytocin because i actually believe our greatest goal in humanity as humans is actually to acquire oxytocin and not dopamine and i think currently we're in the pursuit of the wrong goal as a species and i think oxytocin is very important to pursue how do we create more love in our life and more connection both with ourself and others serotonin because it's so influenced by food nutrition and time outdoors and they are integral factors to the circadian rhythm and a

And then I'm fascinated by endorphins because of how deeply they influence our ability to tolerate stress.

And I think the modern mind is stressed.

I think our ancestors' minds were also stressed by getting chased by bears and all kinds of things.

But those four just seem to encapsulate a really great insight into how to approach living in this world today.

Yeah, so dopamine and serotonin would be the main ones you could influence endogenously through medication and things like that.

We have all kinds of medication like Adderall and Ritalin that will influence your dopamine pathway.

We have selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors, SSRIs like citalopram and sertraline that will influence serotonin.

And

Those are definitely paths that can support these brain chemicals.

I think it's always, I didn't pursue the psychiatry route.

I pursued more of the behavioral change route.

So I think whether you're taking a medication to support them or not, I think behavioral change is very useful for all.

On the oxytocin lane, in research, you can utilize intranasal oxytocin.

You can inhale oxytocin to check how things are operating in different studies.

We can go into different things that can occur there in our conversation.

Endorphins, you can't really do that.

You need to physically push the body in some way to get those to rise.