Happy Brain Chemicals: dopamine, serotonin, oxytocin, endorphin

Discover your happy brain power in seconds! Help others discover their power over their dopamine, serotonin, oxytocin and endorphin. Here's a fun way to start making peace with your inner mammal.
The big picture is explained in Dr. Breuning’s books, starting with: Habits of a Happy Brain: Retrain your brain to boost your serotonin, dopamine, oxytocin, and endorphin levels www.amazon.com... (Available in Spanish, Russian, French, German and Turkish.)
The brain chemicals that make us feel good are inherited from earlier mammals. They evolved to do a job, not to make you feel good all the time. When you know their job in the state of nature, your ups and downs make sense. More important, you can rewire yourself to enjoy more dopamine, serotonin, oxytocin, and endorphin in sustainable ways. You can reduce cortisol too!
It’s not easy, alas. Happy chemicals only flow when you take steps that promote survival. But our brain defines survival in a quirky way: it cares about the survival of your genes, and it relies on neural pathways built in youth. To make life harder still, happy chemicals are quickly metabolized, and our brain habituates to the rewards it has. So you always have to do more to get more happy chemicals. That's why we often have a treadmill feeling. It’s not easy being a mammal!
When you know how your brain works, you can find healthier ways to enjoy happy chemicals and relieve unhappy chemicals. You can build new neural pathways by feeding your brain new experiences. But you have to design the new experience carefully and repeat it a lot!
The Inner Mammal Institute has free resources to help you make peace with your inner mammal: videos, blogs, infographics, and podcasts. Dr. Breuning’s many books illuminate the big picture and help you plot your course. You can feel good in new ways, no matter where you are right now.
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[@WhoThisMonkey]

Understanding how your brain chemistry works, is a great way to escaping substance abuse too.

[@kyle6781]

That's why I'm here.. just got done a gym session and 3 weeks off opiates, trying to find any sliver pce of hope I can find to keep pushing

[@charlenedell6788]

amazing how is it going now @@kyle6781

[@michaelwestmoreland2530]

​@kyle6781 wish you well

[@freshyip]

Fucking A bro I'm 12days sober now Dis is gonna be my 3rd time being a recovered alcoholic.... 😢

[@AswinPBabu-qs2dc]

Dopamine-plessure Serotonin-happiness

[@TomHendricksMusea]

For many years I've tried to find out a basic reason why we and almost all creatures need to sleep. So taking a break from physics ... Suggestion that a key part of the need for sleep is the body's need to make serotonin, which it does in a symbiotic relationship with gut bacteria in the large intestine. Suggestion that we sleep to first produce serotonin, then to draw it into the body through the extraction of water in the large intestine. Though it can be synthesized, there seems to be a major difference in the health benefits from the microbiome made serotonin, and the artificially made serotonin. Here's some notes on both how important serotonin is and how widespread it is in all living things. Besides mammals, serotonin is found in all bilateral animals including worms and insects,[19] as well as in fungi and in plants.[20] Serotonin's presence in insect venoms and plant spines serves to cause pain, which is a side-effect of serotonin injection.[21][22] Serotonin is produced by pathogenic amoebae, and its effect in the human gut is diarrhea.[23] Its widespread presence in many seeds and fruits may serve to stimulate the digestive tract into expelling the seeds.[24] Gut bacteria manufacture about 95 percent of the body's supply of serotonin, which influences both mood and GI activity. Serotonin was shown to exert functions in innate as well as adaptive immunity. Serotonin stimulates monocytes (23) and lymphocytes (24) and hence influences the secretion of cytokines. Vascular smooth muscle cells respond to serotonin by synthesizing interleukin (IL)-6, a possibly atherogenic mechanism (25) Serotonin is a neurotransmitter than has been identified across all forms of life. In recent years the presence and function of serotonin in plants (phytoserotonin) is becoming an increasingly active area of research. Serotonin has been found to function as a plant growth regulator, and a stress defense molecule.May 24, 2017 Although serotonin (5-hydroxytryptamine, 5-HT) was discovered 60 years ago (1), the study of serotonin and its receptors continues to yield new biological insights of medical relevance in virtually all major organ systems, including the cardiovascular, pulmonary, gastrointestinal (GI), and genitourinary systems as well as the central nervous system (CNS) (2). Serotonin is made from the essential amino acid tryptophan. An essential amino acid means it can’t be made by your body. It has to be obtained from the foods you eat.

[@kantesh8336]

"You can develop new dopamine pathway but it will take lot of reputation" well said

[@InnerMammalInstitute]

"repetition" Thank you! I wish you happy repeating of your new choice.

[@InnerMammalInstitute]

repetition :)

[@Jopulis]

Repetition :D

[@frankblangeard8865]

"Now here, you see, it takes all the running you can do to keep in one place". "If you want to get somewhere else, you must run at least twice as fast as that".

[@MalvinderKaur-e7x]

These hormones are not only released when you do something for yourself ,in humans it's a wrong assumption, they are also there when you do something for others without expecting anything back.

[@m0w0ss]

low dopamine levels where you at

[@kepler6484]

Exercise everyday for at least 30 minutes. You may not find the point of it at first but as said in the video, repetition will make sure you stay healthy and feel good.

[@MeganWhamGMfan]

Please don’t have low serotonin Tell your self some jokes it perks me up every time

[@brickyy3106]

Dhruv KP preach!

[@raczyk]

@@kepler6484 is walking considered exercise?

[@kepler6484]

@@raczyk Yes! it is! Starting with walking is a great introduction to exercising, especially if you haven't worked out before

[@brainmaker4495]

This is so good! I'm going to watch it again! (inside joke...) Wonderful video to share far and wide.

[@User_forbidden]

Real choices = 100% honesty = *Reason*

[@beechy01]

This is brilliant - thank you guys. I can use this in lessons on mental health for young people - it helps makes sense of the neuro science.

[@InnerMammalInstitute]

Thank you so much! Here are more resources for young people: innermammalinstitute.org/kids-teens/

[@mimirhermestrismegistus4585]

Best explanation yet. Closer to are roots and the metaphysics of the belief system. Hence we can hack and control us being conscious lifeforms..

[@ExploreLearnEnglishWithGeorge]

meditation or sleep cycle reset your dopamine levels, ie dopamine detox (receptors can be fixed within 14 months of low dopamine stimulation)

[@nigga4069]

way less than 14 months

[@AtlanteanVrilChad]

Wayyy less

[@d.yashwanthdora4893]

What activities should b done for production of these chemicals

[@Rg-es9kv]

Very nice, I'm. Looking to naturally heighten serotonin levels to counter act high levels of cortisol that come about due ptsd which is the pregonitor of depression

[@Joethebro101]

To remember these chemicals I use the acronym d.o.s.e.

[@ankurchowdry3251]

Using too much mobile screen can lower happy hormones

[@Jammingonlinewithanyone]

Can you purchase these chemicals online?

[@Dr.Cranny]

It's lifestyle activities that matter

[@AL_THOMAS_777]

Body OWN "drugs" ? "No, sorry mate, not available in our shop !"

[@BladesAcademy]

I myself can reconstruct the pathways between stimulants and happy chemicals.

[@ryanfrizzell736]

Great video. Now I know more about dopamine and serotonin. With this knowledge I can better manage my own dopamine and serotonin.

[@TomHendricksMusea]

Suggestion that a key part of the need for sleep is the body's need to make serotonin, which it does in a symbiotic relationship with gut bacteria in the large intestine. We sleep to first produce serotonin, then to draw it into the body through the extraction of water in the large intestine. Though it can be synthesized, there seems to be a major difference in the health benefits from the micro made serotonin, and the artificially made serotonin. Here's some notes on both how important serotonin is and how widespread it is in all living things. Besides mammals, serotonin is found in all bilateral animals including worms and insects,[19] as well as in fungi and in plants.[20] Serotonin's presence in insect venoms and plant spines serves to cause pain, which is a side-effect of serotonin injection.[21][22] Serotonin is produced by pathogenic amoebae, and its effect in the human gut is diarrhea.[23] Its widespread presence in many seeds and fruits may serve to stimulate the digestive tract into expelling the seeds.[24] Gut bacteria manufacture about 95 percent of the body's supply of serotonin, which influences both mood and GI activity.

[@jlynn4736]

Thank u

[@bukuzzatee]

Can I download & reshare this video for education purposes?

[@InnerMammalInstitute]

Yes. And please find more free resources at InnerMammalInstitute.org

[@delwarhussain8280]

Wonderful! The video has explained it in a simplified way

[@jordangreen6943]

fascinating video, thanks for that 😊

[@someonesomeone25]

How do I boost these feel good chemicals to be happy all the time and at mega high levels?

[@dhplaz1475]

Its impossible to be happy all the time because the reason good feelings are good are because they are good compared tho others.

[@someonesomeone25]

@@dhplaz1475 Im not sure thats true. At least, one could argue that having experienced pain just once one could then always have a frame of reference and be happy by being in a state without pain. Additionally, it seems obvious to me that one could theoretically always be in a statenof comfort combined with highly regular intervals of novel pleasure.

[@chrisawesome3091]

@@someonesomeone25 take drugs. But then you have to keep increasing them and may od. I also am pretty sure these act like drugs. So eventually your happiness at an elevated level of these won’t feel as good. And eventually it will become a new base level

[@someonesomeone25]

@@chrisawesome3091 I really liked drugs when I was younger. But they're illegal. So.

[@chrisawesome3091]

@@someonesomeone25 lol

[@TDHofstetter]

You will never achive a greater-than-average "happiness". In order to recognize happiness, it must be counterbalanced by unhappiness. Princess and pea. Drawbacks and benefits are always bundled together; you cannot buy them separately. Security is like happiness. You can't reach it, all you ever get is the pursuit.

[@affectivedogbehavior9422]

However, neither serotonin nor oxytocin are "happy chemicals". So this is very misleading. And I also believe that it is important to enlighten your viewers about what endorphins are ... they are one of three major groups of opioids, and their main function is to modulate emotional and physical pain

[@chadgaston8615]

They are exactly once we produce 'under love'. Your 'opinion' wont change this.

[@lexderp2766]

They all are used for the happy chemicals in different ways. Like oxytocin is given when you pet a dog or make love. It’s like physical stuff. Serotonin is used when you complete a task or complete something for someone. It’s like when you do laundry and feel better after. Dopamine I typically hear is drugs and eating so I guess it’s eating? And then endorphins are obv the workout one so yes they’re all good chemicals that promote all tasks for survival

[@dianakastner7509]

@Lex Derp Now, that was a vague reply. None of these chemicals are "happy chemicals", and it's silly to call them that.

[@lexderp2766]

@@dianakastner7509 okay? Do I need to use scientific vernacular to make astounding claims for each chemical and motor protein and as to how I know all and all shall listen or can I just simplify it because that’s a lot better.

[@Dr.Cranny]

My brother. Kindly review neurophysiology deep concepts. Neuropharmacologically, people with depression we treat them with SSRIS ( selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors) such as fluoxetine ..to just simply increase the levels of serotonin in the CNS so as the patient becomes happy again. When you have strong erections your colleagues usually say" this guy has alot of testosterone" but one of the hormones responsible for sexual drive is oxytocin which is an analog to testosterone.. I presume no one gets a high sex drive when sad..hence oxytocin being a happy hormone. So dear brother. Just read deeper, u'll find and understand these things slowly.

[@SusanDonoho]

How do these work when considered from the context of divine intelligent creation?

[@InnerMammalInstitute]

Think about it this way: God does not feed animals; he gave them a brain that learns how to find food and works hard at it every day. Our brain does that too.

[@loveiseternal1995]

Can u please tell me the application you used to make these illustrations??

[@InnerMammalInstitute]

Someone made them for me so I don't know.

[@bening77]

Apakah makan makanan favorit, menonton acara favorite, music , wisata dll bisa meningkatkan " hormone Dopamine ? Thanks You

[@InnerMammalInstitute]

Yes, your favorite food or entertainment or travel will spark dopamine at first, but soon you will habituate and want more. Goals spark it too, so it's important to have a variety of goals so you don't just repeat things that are bad for you or not acessible.

[@panhasaonha9096]

Excuse me could you tell me what makes the brain release happy chemicals?

[@GhostRangerr]

Video title: "Happy brain chemicals" *Adhd & Autistic people have disconnected from the chat*

[@RonaldSimonKahn]

Oxytocin hits different 💤😴

[@neelkamal7454]

Can we chemically induce the emotion of love, fear, rage ??? And what type of hormones is released at that time

[@InnerMammalInstitute]

The chemicals are released in the appropriate situation, and you decide that with neural pathways built from whatever triggered those chemicals in your past. That's why life is complicated! Whatever triggered love, fear, and rage in your past wired you to turn them on in similar situations today.

[@alphalifestyleacademy]

I have been binging on your videos. Please don't stop. Your videos are so helpful.

[@mrgratitude6555]

Thank you for this inspirational message

[@vvioletlawiieri1593]

Thank you

[@curiousmech]

Thanks Loretta!

[@joeychavarria1111]

Wow your work is greatly appreciated I wish I had money 🤑 to give so I can hit that THANKS 🙏🏽 BUTTON 😊 thanks a bunch 🙏🏽😇

[@InnerMammalInstitute]

Thank you! Half price on my course w code HALFPRICE innermammalinstitute.org/course

[@trauma2happiness]

Good explanation

[@LeviBrich]

Perhaps when Dinosaurs ruled the earth. Nice animation though, good work.

[@palmraisan8967]

this is good thank you for telling me all that

[@cindyrobertson3780]

Serotonin is my boi

[@god9687]

On a certain level, we have a drug store in our brain, the neurochemicals that show up in flow: so dopamine, norepinephrine, anandamide, endorphins, and serotonin. If you were to try to cocktail the street drug version of that, right, you're trying to blend like heroin and speed and coke and acid and weed- and point is, you can't do it. It turns out the brain can cocktail all of 'em at once, which is why people will prefer flow to almost any experience on Earth. It's our favorite experience. It's the most addictive experience on Earth. Why? 'Cause it cocktails five or six of the largest pleasure drugs the brain can produce. We're all capable of so much more than we know. That is a commonality across the board. And one of the big reasons is we're all hardwired for flow, and flow is a massive amplification of what's possible for ourselves.

[@pradeepnair162]

Wonderfully explained, thanks

[@w1z4rd9]

Is too much produced dopamine bad for your body ? Or will you just look like kinda crazy to others ?

[@InnerMammalInstitute]

Not bad for your body, but if you only focus on dopamine you miss out on serotonin and oxytocin.

[@InnerMammalInstitute]

@wdym? It's because different behaviors stimulate different chemicals, so if you only focus on dopamine behaviors you may shortchange the others - the book explains simply, and my website.

[@lifeisagameofknowingyourro6327]

@@InnerMammalInstitute balance is key thats all

[@patriciaanderson9283]

@@InnerMammalInstitute yahhhh

[@xxhamza_gamerxx9462]

I just woona say that we are human from the beginning

[@AL_THOMAS_777]

Maybe with a little Oxytocin poor Adolf Hitler would´ve been a completely different guy !

[@microbefeeder]

Wait, is this Ellen Burstyn?

[@ramalingeswararaobhavaraju5813]

Thank.

[@lou0vespenger]

What's the différence between dopamine and adrenaline?

[@lorettabreuning8578]

Adrenaline is hearing a loud noise. Dopamine is when you see that the noise comes from something good. Cortisol is when you see that it's from something bad.

[@lorettabreuning8578]

Adrenaline is hearing a loud noise. Dopamine is when you see that the noise comes from something good. Cortisol is when you see that it's from something bad.

[@letsgrowtogether7015]

Thank y I love ur channel

[@margueriteoreilly2168]

Cool Belfast Ireland 🇮🇪😎

[@rahulkumar-om]

Great job

[@god9687]

Now it starts to snow, but the air isn’t cold. You hold out your hand to catch a few specks of white as they fall. These aren’t snowflakes, this is powdered sugar! With a big grin you stick your tongue out into the air.

[@achsahkaleb4844]

Evolution does not exist. Yehovah Made them male and female and called them ADAM. Watch all archeology of Ron Wyatt. Mount Sinai was found in Saudi Arabia, The split rock also in Arabia, The Yom Suph crossing found, Farao's chariot wheel under water, Pillars of Solomon, Sodom and Ghamorrah. Yeshua's blood was tested. The world was created in 6 days and on the seventh day Saturday Shabbat Yehovah Tzeva'ot rested and gave us a double blessing. HalleluYah. Yeshua is alive and is sitting on the right hand of Abba Father, waiting for His Father to make His enemies His footstool. there is no more time to waste on lies. repent. The persecution is coming. You have one chance! Use it wisely. Amen

[@_blank-_]

Mount Sinai is in Egypt and it wasn't "discovered", it's always been there for centuries. I'm not going to talk about the rest of your comment because it's nonsense. Many Christian sects accept that the Genesis is more of a metaphor than a 100% accurate account of the creation of the world.

[@youjirohanmma6485]

Science don't accept thing that don't have explanation it's called scientific explanation

[@Interdictiondeltawing]

POV: Your here because of virtual Learning

[@sentrinovan7099]

Im here to be happy✨ brain magic! Wheeee!!!!

[@jawaidqaisar7833]

👍

[@michellecontrerasewens6432]

Awesome!

[@randymartosoewito7892]

Its like a video game .. we in a simulation even the animals

[@bluesummers5051]

I came here to learn what the difference is between them :/

[@espaceespirit]

🎉❤😂 0:42 Séances 0:47

[@KylesBodyandBraintips]

Very good video !!! (:

[@yoongisneckpillow9809]

How I wish I could be like robot for few months until my exams so I study seriously 😭😭

[@InnerMammalInstitute]

"Robot" sounds bad so you won't do it until you find a positive way to think of it.

[@yoongisneckpillow9809]

@@InnerMammalInstitute hmm I am really trying but i just can't study

[@youjirohanmma6485]

When u realize u can't control it brain sometimes the brain think wat u don't want to think eventhou urbtired of it😥

[@betty-jacob]

GOOD

[@hanumansolanke4010]

Plg help me 😭😭😭

[@aesthetic_boy_07]

Dompamine, seratonin, Endorphin, Oxytocin

[@sehajveersingh7230]

So we are chemicals we don't have free will I am only happy with my parents family friends because of chemicals What is proof these chemicals exist any photos video

[@silviavalencia8548]

Is it possible to feel this all the time and have a crash at some point?

[@InnerMammalInstitute]

Sure. I always use animal examples. Imagine a lion is chasing a gazelle and sees the gazelle getting away. Now it has used up it's energy and it's still hungry. Is that the kind of crash you mean?

[@silviavalencia8548]

I feel happy a lot all the time but maybe once a month i fall into depression for a couple days

[@InnerMammalInstitute]

Silvia Valencia Normal. Give yourself a healthy break.

[@carriagereturned3974]

@@silviavalencia8548 JESUS i am happy to be MAY BE ONE day happy in a month or two. And it is OK.

[@riyarsini7159]

1:35 I am reminded of covid 🥴

[@goldenstandard187]

🧠

[@Flash0ut901]

I got adhd soo I have low dopamine

[@MB-jg4tr]

Lol, my GF is my inner Mammal right now

[@_blank-_]

Ok, drugs seems like an easier alternative. Who's got time for building new pathways???

[@youjirohanmma6485]

If I rely on drug ulll become drug addict🤣

[@hanumansolanke4010]

I don't have feelings

[@rocksta8927]

Hanuman solanke saying this you expressed your feelings

[@hanumansolanke4010]

@@rocksta8927 but i can't. becose my oxytocin Hormonc in have same problem becose he can't produce any Feelings

[@tronsean5247]

Any body else come from thoghty2

[@1415gatewayable]

God is real he exists praise Jesus.

[@donutmoron]

The narrator's voice is trembling?

[@wangMing-l8z]

Time 0.37/2.22, You don't even know the brain structure, what a shame.

[@francismackinnon1928]

Ghee my laptops fucked

[@francismackinnon1928]

It's like v2s is ganking the sickness benefit

[@medooazmi]

So we're all reinforcement learning machines that walks on two sticks huh? (I hate darwin)

[@brandonmtb3767]

Let's not use the word designed

[@stbam1965]

I like happy drugs

[@rajibsarma1661]

🧔😃😀😁😅🤩 be happy .

[@creoleking206]

So is being gay wrong, I thought gay meant happy?

[@ciscobriano]

This Is inaccurate! Sloppy work

[@_blank-_]

How??

[@prodashibe]

gimme

[@PLAYINGTOGETHER-nj8jt]

Load me up schoty sounds good Who wants a nice big hug 🫂🤗 🥰