45. Creating Happy Brain Chemicals and Healthy Habits By Boosting Your Serotonin, Dopamine, Oxytocin and Endorphin Levels with Loretta Graziano Breuning, PhD

Watch The Full Episode on YouTube Here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oLtF9MwAkTc&feature=youtu.be Loretta G. Breuning, PhD, is the Founder of the Inner Mammal Institute and Professor Emerita of Management at California State University, East Bay. She is the author of many personal development books, including Habits of a Happy Brain: Retrain Your Brain to Boost Your Serotonin, Dopamine, Oxytocin and Endorphin Levels, The Science of Positivity and Anxiety: What Turns It On and Turns It Off. Our happy chemicals are not designed to flow all the time for no reason. They evolved to reward survival behavior. Don't think others are getting happy chemicals all the time-- they're not! Resources: Site  InnerMammalInstitute.org. Podcast happybrainpodcast.com Videos: YouHavePowerOverYourBrain.com FB LorettaBreuningPhD Tw @innermammal YT https://www.youtube.com/innermammalinstitute Insta @inner.mammal.inst LI: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lorettabreuning/ *New book coming out in September: Status Games: Why We Play and How to Stop https://www.amazon.com/dp/1538144190/ Podcast: https://www.mentalhealthnewsradionetwork.com/our-shows/the-happy-brain/ Timestamps: 00:00 Welcome To Awakening Aphrodite 00:27 Introduction 04:03 The Beginning of Loretta’s Journey 05:54 Leaving Academia 07:55 Researching Social Behavior in Mammals 13:09 Consciousness of Mortality in Animals 15:02 What Are Happy Chemicals? 21:04 Addiction To Social Media 23:47 Hormones vs. Neurotransmitters 28:57 What Are Endorphins 33:06 The Perception of The Happiness in Others 36:30 Confirmation Bias 39:27 The Formation of Myelinated Neurons 44:02 Rewiring Neural Pathways 49:04 Why Relationships Become Stagnant 51:14 The Unhappy Chemical 55:49 Social Comparison 57:27 Loretta’s Upcoming Projects Thanks for listening to Awakening Aphrodite!