Habits of a Happy Brain: Retrain Your Brain to Boost Your Serotonin, Dopamine, Oxytocin, & Endorphin Levels

Interesting Facts

• The book explains how the four main neurotransmitters—dopamine, serotonin, endorphins, and oxytocin—affect our sense of happiness and well-being.
• The author offers practical exercises and strategies to increase the levels of these happiness hormones in everyday life.
• One of the key points of the book is the idea that our brain evolved for survival, not happiness, and therefore it is important to consciously work on improving your emotional state.
• The book emphasizes the importance of understanding how negative habits and thoughts can hinder the production of happiness hormones and offers ways to overcome them.
• Loretta Graziano Breuning uses examples from animal life to illustrate how instincts and behavior affect chemical processes in the brain.
• The author claims that understanding brain function and its chemistry can help people better manage their emotions and achieve a higher level of life satisfaction.