Welcome to the Primal Blueprint Podcast, featuring fresh and lively commentary on all things Primal,

including Q&A sessions with Primal Blueprint founder Mark Sisson, special guest interviews hosted by Mark Sisson,

and conversations with Primal Blueprint authors and other health and fitness experts.

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El Russ. Hey, everyone, welcome to the podcast. Today we have Dr. Loretta Bruning, who's a PhD and an

amazing guest we've had on before. If you're curious about her work, she was on episode number 82

with us, and we talked about her history and her work, she was on episode number 82 with us,

and we talked about her history and her work and one of her many books, Habits of a Happy Brain.

And now we're back to talk about this new book of hers called The Science of Positivity.

Stop Negative Thought Patterns by Changing Your Brain Chemistry.

She is the founder of the Inner Mammal Institute. You can go to

Inner Mammal Institute.org, which studies how our neurochemical makeup guides our feelings and

behaviors in similar ways to our non-human relatives. And, you know, Loretta began studying

the brain chemistry of animals because she just wasn't convinced by prevailing theories of human

motivation. And so when she

learned that our happy brain chemicals triggers survivor behaviors and animals, she went ahead and

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