Free Happiness Hacks

The Dr. Hyman Show

Dr. Mark Hyman

Medicine, Nutrition, Health & Fitness

4.5 • 9.1K Ratings

🗓️ 13 November 2020

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Free Happiness Hacks | This episode is sponsored by Swanwick We often fall into the trap of thinking that having more or better stuff will bring about happiness; the research, however, proves otherwise. Happiness doesn’t have to be something you have or you don’t—just like our health, it’s something we can work on. In fact, the acts of helping others and practicing gratitude are foundational to improving happiness. In this minisode, Dr. Hyman talks with Laurie Santos about science-based hacks for creating more happiness in your life, and even better, they don’t cost a thing! Laurie Santos is a Professor of Psychology and the Head of Silliman College at Yale University, as well as the host of the critically acclaimed podcast The Happiness Lab. After observing a disturbing level of unhappiness and anxiety among her students, she began teaching a course entitled "Psychology and the Good Life," which quickly became the most popular course in Yale's history and has also reached almost 2 million people from all over the world online. Although she’s now best known as a "happiness expert,” Santos's research explores the much broader question of "What makes the human mind unique?" and often includes comparing the cognitive capacities of non-human animals to humans. This episode is brought to you by Swanwick. Right now, Swanwick is offering Doctor’s Farmacy listeners 15% off. Just go to swannies.com/hyman, and enter code HYMAN at check out. Find Dr. Hyman’s full-length conversation with Laurie Santos, “The Science Of Creating Happiness” here: https://DrMarkHyman.lnk.to/LaurieSantos

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0:00.0	Coming up on this episode of the doctor's pharmacy, we forget that we can extend that kind of
0:04.3	compassion to ourself and there's evidence that this practice in addition to kind of helping you
0:09.2	helping you not kind of burn out when you're dealing with other people's you know issues
0:12.8	and also help you not burn out as much when you're kind of taking care of yourself too.
0:17.0	Hey everyone it's Dr. Mark. Now getting good quality sleep is a big deal. In fact,
0:21.5	it's probably the most underrated aspect of health and personal performance, but our modern
0:26.0	lifestyle actually makes it difficult to get a good night's sleep. It all comes down to our
0:30.8	primal programming or what we call our circadian rhythm and the most important factor in regulating
0:35.8	your circadian rhythm is light. Basically light from any source, especially blue light from our
0:41.2	devices, TVs, light bulbs and computers, enter our eyes and blocks the formation of melatonin in our
0:46.0	brain. Now melatonin you may remember as responsible for making us feel sleepy and it's essential for
0:51.4	quality sleep. So the best way to ramp up melatonin formation at night is to block light from entering
0:56.8	our eyes. And one of the easiest ways to block this light signal is wearing blue light blocking
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1:44.2	but I notice a huge difference in my productivity the next day. Right now swanwick is
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