Welcome to what drives you. I'm Kevin Miller in this episode, How to Save Brain Chemicals,

to fuel your most important efforts. Sometimes an analogy comes along that just clicks for me.

It takes information that I may have heard before, but helps it really drive home so I drive it home so I can

integrate it into my life. That's what happened with my guest in this show regarding the

brain chemicals that fuel drive and motive. So T.J. Power, he's a neuroscientist and innovator in the

area of mental health. His work focuses on

providing easy to adopt scientifically backed teachings that empower people to take action towards

healthier lifestyles. He's got a really big following. And when I got his new book,

I understood why. The book's called The Dose Effect, DOSE.

Optimize your brain and body by boosting your, here's where dose comes from, dopamine, oxytocin,

serotonin, and endorphins. Well, in it, and those are brain chemicals.

Well, in it, TJ's his explanations helped me see how I am increasing or depleting those

brain chemicals.

And those are what I rely on for the important work in my life, the big things that I want

to do.

Well, most of us have heard a lot about dopamine,

but do we really understand how to increase it and decrease it, what robs us of it? And then also

further into oxytocin serotonin endorphins, which we don't really hear a lot of detail on.

Now, the point here is not, we're not going to get all clinical and to understand those things

fluently. It's mainly to understand what we're not going to get all clinical and to understand those things fluently.

It's mainly to understand what we're doing in our lives and see how we are helping or hurting those chemicals that then help or hurt the efforts that we want to make in life.

And I was really most interested in what I learned about what I'm doing that depletes these things.

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