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The James Altucher Show

Ep. 68 - Loretta Graziano Breuning: Meet Your Happy Chemicals

The James Altucher Show

James Altucher

Society & Culture, Talk Radio, Writer, Philosophy, Comedy, Chess, How To, Entrepreneurship, Jay, James, The James Altucher Show, Altucher, Author, Jay Yow, Education, Jay The Engineer, Business, James Altucher

4.62.7K Ratings

🗓️ 5 December 2014

⏱️ 75 minutes

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Summary

Your ups and downs are caused by brain chemicals inherited from earlier mammals. What's exciting about that is, you can enjoy more happy chemicals if you learn how to manage your mammal brain. Loretta writes a fantastic blog on her...

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This isn't your average business podcast and he's not your average host.

0:06.4

This is the James Alteter Show on the Stansbury Radio Network.

0:11.2

So, Loreta, I'm so excited to have you on my podcast.

0:24.2

Your books have been...

0:26.2

It's fair to say they've had a huge impact on me and I probably plagiarized you quite

0:31.4

a bit, so I hope that's okay with you.

0:33.2

Do you give my name when you plagiarize me?

0:37.4

Never.

0:38.4

But I am going to totally tell people that they should read your books because the two

0:43.5

books are that have the biggest impact on me were meet your happy chemicals and I

0:49.5

mammal.

0:50.5

And I probably read both of them cover to cover at least two or three times.

0:54.8

They're great books.

0:56.6

And...

0:57.6

Oh great.

0:58.6

And I'm going to try to describe them, but then you can correct me and we'll just go

1:02.8

off.

1:03.8

So, meet your happy chemicals, talk about the neurochemicals in our bodies, like serotonin,

1:11.0

dopamine endorphins and oxytocin that actually give us feelings of happiness.

1:16.8

So often people write to me and say, are you happy?

1:20.0

I think they're conflating happiness with not understanding the neurochemicals that

1:27.0

actually cause happiness that as you put it, get metabolized fairly quickly in the body

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