#82: Dr. Loretta Breuning
The Primal Kitchen Podcast
Mark Sisson & Morgan Zanotti
4.4 • 717 Ratings
🗓️ 25 August 2015
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
How much are we like our mammalian cousins in the animal kingdom? And what can they teach us about our mental and emotional lives? Elle Russ tackles these questions in a riveting interview with Dr. Loretta Breuning, blogger, former professor, and founder of The Inner Mammal Institute, which studies how our neurochemical makeup guides our feelings and behaviors in similar ways to our non-human relatives. Dr. Breuning began studying the brain chemistry of animals because she was not convinced by prevailing theories of human motivation. When she learned that our happy brain chemicals trigger survival behaviors in animals, she retired from her career as Professor of Management at California State University, East Bay to connect the dots. Now, her books and resources have helped thousands of people worldwide to make peace with their inner mammal.
Her books include Beyond Cynical: Transcend Your Mammalian Negativity; I, Mammal: Why Your Brain Links Status and Happiness; and the forthcoming Habits of a Happy Brain: Retrain Your Brain to Boost Your Serotonin, Dopamine, Oxytocin, & Endorphin. Her blog, Your Neurochemical Self, is hosted at PsychologyToday.com
So tune into today’s show to learn more about how you can improve your mental and emotional wellbeing through reworking the mammalian neural networks that comprise your brain!
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| 1:08.4 | And now, introducing your host, L. Russ. Hey, everyone, welcome to the podcast. Today we have |
| 1:15.9 | Loretta Bruning. She is the founder of the Inner Mammal Institute and the author of Meet Your Happy |
| 1:21.8 | Chemicals. That's inner mammal institute.org, if you're interested, Welcome to the show, Loretta. How are you? |
| 1:29.0 | Hi, thanks. Nice to be here. You have some really interesting work here. Inner Mammal Institute. |
| 1:34.8 | Now, let's talk a little bit about why you started this and how and what the philosophy is, |
| 1:40.6 | because I think a lot of our listeners are going to be very interested in what you have to say about our brain chemicals and how it relates to animals. |
| 1:48.1 | So I noticed that people around me have lots of ups and downs. And when I was a little kid, I surely noticed that, as most people do. |
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