You know, I think what we all realize during this quarantine is that life is short and we've

got to kind of enjoy things and part of that is taking care of your brain, you know, which

sends all these happiness chemicals throughout our body. Absolutely. Well, and let me ask you if

this analogy is wrong. Like I feel like, you know, the fight or flight instinct when there's danger

is something that would, let's say, 30,000 years ago probably would spike for people and then go

back down to normal very quickly. Whereas I feel just even before this pandemic, I feel like we're

constantly in this low simmering fighter flight mode in our brain, but we're just sitting still

and staring at a computer screen where all the lions and tigers in the jungle our brain things are.

Definitely. And of course, I probably increased during this time, but just in general, I want to figure

out best practices for all these things. Well, I'm excited for today's conversation because there are

things that we all can do to optimize the neurochemicals that allow us to focus better, sleep better,

feel better. So here's the interesting thing about dopamine. Dopamine doesn't care about the deeper

meaning. It's not like if you get a like that your brain is doing some really fast subconscious

processing, says, okay, I like equals this equals this means my life is secure and I feel good. It

doesn't do that. Dopamine works on much shorter time scales. Dopamine tends to get engaged in

whatever you're focused on. So it's kind of a positive ample occasion. You can train up focus.

You can train up gold directed behavior. All right, so I'm starting off the day. I want dopamine to

kick in. I want focus, happiness, excitement for my goals and I want to be super smart. Okay, so

let's talk about some behavioral things and then we can talk about nutritional and supplementation

things that really push it a little bit harder. So once again, Professor Andrew Huberman,

Professor of Neuroscience at Stanford, we had him on a few weeks ago to talk about specific

neuroscience neurobiological ways of dealing with anxiety, stress, the brain in, you know,

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