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TJ Power

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The mindbodygreen Podcast
590: The science of dopamine, oxytocin, & serotonin | Neuroscientist Tj Power

It really does. And then it's funny because we do this thing called dose stacking when people are going through all our live experiences and they learn all about the chemicals and all the 20 different actions you can utilize. And then they try and come up with some kind of activity that could hit multiple cards within each chemical and multiple chemicals at once.

The mindbodygreen Podcast
590: The science of dopamine, oxytocin, & serotonin | Neuroscientist Tj Power

It really does. And then it's funny because we do this thing called dose stacking when people are going through all our live experiences and they learn all about the chemicals and all the 20 different actions you can utilize. And then they try and come up with some kind of activity that could hit multiple cards within each chemical and multiple chemicals at once.

The mindbodygreen Podcast
590: The science of dopamine, oxytocin, & serotonin | Neuroscientist Tj Power

And ultimately, everyone ends up concluding, oh, maybe I should go out into nature with my friends and do some physical activity and eat some healthy food. That's like when you go through it or you conclude that. And then it's like, oh, yeah, that's what we did for 300,000 years. We walked around in nature with our friends and ate healthy food.

The mindbodygreen Podcast
590: The science of dopamine, oxytocin, & serotonin | Neuroscientist Tj Power

And ultimately, everyone ends up concluding, oh, maybe I should go out into nature with my friends and do some physical activity and eat some healthy food. That's like when you go through it or you conclude that. And then it's like, oh, yeah, that's what we did for 300,000 years. We walked around in nature with our friends and ate healthy food.

The mindbodygreen Podcast
590: The science of dopamine, oxytocin, & serotonin | Neuroscientist Tj Power

And although that might seem so simple, it's not what we're doing in the modern world. We don't spend enough time out in nature with our friends walking, eating healthy food. And that's what our system wants.

The mindbodygreen Podcast
590: The science of dopamine, oxytocin, & serotonin | Neuroscientist Tj Power

And although that might seem so simple, it's not what we're doing in the modern world. We don't spend enough time out in nature with our friends walking, eating healthy food. And that's what our system wants.

The mindbodygreen Podcast
590: The science of dopamine, oxytocin, & serotonin | Neuroscientist Tj Power

Yeah, so if they were having some kind of social experience, that would be a good opportunity for some stacking, but it could be a social experience at home. It doesn't have to be an exercise-based one. But if, say, you were having some friends over for dinner, if you chose in that situation when everyone got there,

The mindbodygreen Podcast
590: The science of dopamine, oxytocin, & serotonin | Neuroscientist Tj Power

Yeah, so if they were having some kind of social experience, that would be a good opportunity for some stacking, but it could be a social experience at home. It doesn't have to be an exercise-based one. But if, say, you were having some friends over for dinner, if you chose in that situation when everyone got there,

The mindbodygreen Podcast
590: The science of dopamine, oxytocin, & serotonin | Neuroscientist Tj Power

to all agree to not go on your phones for the next like say hour or two hours and you all put your phones like on a windowsill and you're like, okay, we're just going to have a break.

The mindbodygreen Podcast
590: The science of dopamine, oxytocin, & serotonin | Neuroscientist Tj Power

to all agree to not go on your phones for the next like say hour or two hours and you all put your phones like on a windowsill and you're like, okay, we're just going to have a break.

The mindbodygreen Podcast
590: The science of dopamine, oxytocin, & serotonin | Neuroscientist Tj Power

A good way to do this in a restaurant as well is to all put your phones in the middle and then whoever touches their phone has to pay for the meal and then you're really motivated to not touch the phone, whoever touches the phone first. If you were with them, you were socializing, hopefully with some good nutritious food.

The mindbodygreen Podcast
590: The science of dopamine, oxytocin, & serotonin | Neuroscientist Tj Power

A good way to do this in a restaurant as well is to all put your phones in the middle and then whoever touches their phone has to pay for the meal and then you're really motivated to not touch the phone, whoever touches the phone first. If you were with them, you were socializing, hopefully with some good nutritious food.

The mindbodygreen Podcast
590: The science of dopamine, oxytocin, & serotonin | Neuroscientist Tj Power

Then it's really good in social settings to really lean into this whole gratitude conversation. If you were, say, with someone and you looked across them and you said the question, why do you feel grateful that I'm in your life? They would go, what the hell? That's a ridiculous question. That's like a shocking question to ask. But if you just said, no, seriously, like, can you think of anything?

The mindbodygreen Podcast
590: The science of dopamine, oxytocin, & serotonin | Neuroscientist Tj Power

Then it's really good in social settings to really lean into this whole gratitude conversation. If you were, say, with someone and you looked across them and you said the question, why do you feel grateful that I'm in your life? They would go, what the hell? That's a ridiculous question. That's like a shocking question to ask. But if you just said, no, seriously, like, can you think of anything?

The mindbodygreen Podcast
590: The science of dopamine, oxytocin, & serotonin | Neuroscientist Tj Power

They would easily be able to answer that question. That's why they're friends with you because they think you have something to offer them and some form of connection. If they shared those thoughts and then you shared yours back, you would get this unbelievable oxytocin experience.

The mindbodygreen Podcast
590: The science of dopamine, oxytocin, & serotonin | Neuroscientist Tj Power

They would easily be able to answer that question. That's why they're friends with you because they think you have something to offer them and some form of connection. If they shared those thoughts and then you shared yours back, you would get this unbelievable oxytocin experience.

The mindbodygreen Podcast
590: The science of dopamine, oxytocin, & serotonin | Neuroscientist Tj Power

Yeah. Team sports are powerful. They're really beneficial, especially for the youngsters that are even more hooked on all this stuff than us as adults. It's really powerful.

The mindbodygreen Podcast
590: The science of dopamine, oxytocin, & serotonin | Neuroscientist Tj Power

Yeah. Team sports are powerful. They're really beneficial, especially for the youngsters that are even more hooked on all this stuff than us as adults. It's really powerful.

The mindbodygreen Podcast
590: The science of dopamine, oxytocin, & serotonin | Neuroscientist Tj Power

Yeah, I mean, we do this thing called in the schools in the UK, this thing called Forts with Friends, where we just try and get young people into woods and forests to build forts. Like a lot of people, like when I grew up as a kid, that's what a lot of our free time was. It was like in nature, putting big sticks against the tree and then building little forts. And that's just been lost forever.

The mindbodygreen Podcast
590: The science of dopamine, oxytocin, & serotonin | Neuroscientist Tj Power

Yeah, I mean, we do this thing called in the schools in the UK, this thing called Forts with Friends, where we just try and get young people into woods and forests to build forts. Like a lot of people, like when I grew up as a kid, that's what a lot of our free time was. It was like in nature, putting big sticks against the tree and then building little forts. And that's just been lost forever.