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

Main Ideas

• Understanding the role of four key neurotransmitters—dopamine, serotonin, endorphins, and oxytocin—in shaping feelings of happiness and well-being.
• Exploring how evolution has shaped our brain to produce these hormones in response to certain stimuli and behaviors.
• Practical advice and strategies for changing daily habits and lifestyle to increase the natural production of happiness hormones.
• Explaining how negative habits and stress can hinder the production of happiness hormones and how to combat this.
• Creating new neural pathways through the repetition of positive actions to sustainably increase happiness levels.
• The role of social interactions and personal achievements in stimulating the production of oxytocin and serotonin.
• Understanding the short-term and long-term effects of various actions on happiness hormone levels and how this impacts overall health and well-being.