How to Create an Unstoppable Brain With Dr. Kyra Bobinet

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Mental Health, Health & Fitness, Health & Fitness:mental Health

4.7 • 522 Ratings

🗓️ 20 May 2025

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Our brains are incredibly powerful, and the trick is to learn how to make them work for us, not against us. This week, host Paula Felps sits down with Dr. Kyra Bobinet, a physician, public health leader, and behavior change designer whose work focuses on how to build optimal health for a more fulfilling life. Her new book, Unstoppable Brain: The New Neuroscience That Frees Us From Failure, Eases Our Stress, and Creates Lasting Change explores a relatively new area of study that changes what we know about how our brain influences our habits, self-care, and addictions — and how we can use these findings to improve our well-being. In this episode, you’ll learn: The role of the habenula in losing our motivation and managing failure. How growing up in trauma hijacks our brains and heightens our reactivity. How social media and doomscrolling affect your brain — and how an iterative mindset can help you get unstuck.

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0:00.0	Thank you for joining us for episode 520 of Live Happy Now.
0:08.4	We know that our brains are incredibly powerful, and today we're going to learn a little bit more about how to make them work for us and not against us.
0:16.8	I'm your host, Paula Phelps, and this week I'm joined by Dr. Kyra Bobinette, a physician and health care expert who focuses on tranquility, transformation, and healing as the pathway to creating optimal health.
0:29.0	Her latest book, Unstoppable Brain, looks at how a little studied area of our brains has a big impact on our behavior and how it can kill our motivation.
0:38.9	She's here to tell us all about it and importantly, tell us what we can do to improve our
0:43.3	self-care and build sustainable habits. Let's have a listen.
0:47.6	Dr. Kyra, thank you so much for joining us on Live Happy Now.
0:50.6	Oh, it's wonderful to be here.
0:52.5	You have written an incredible book. It is one of the most
0:55.9	mind-blowing books that I have looked at this year, and it's called Unstoppable Brain. And you
1:01.4	are really teaching us how we can use our brains differently. You're taking us down this relatively
1:07.1	new path. We're studying the Hbenula. Okay, let's start by having you explain what that is.
1:13.3	Yeah, so this is the area that controls everything and you didn't know about it. And so we're lucky
1:18.7	to be alive at this time because we don't have to kind of memorize all of these self-help lists
1:25.1	or processes or frameworks or anything like that. We all we have to do is know
1:29.4	that in the very center of your brain is this little half a centimeter two-sided pea size peas, right?
1:37.6	And these amazingly are small but mighty. They control our motivation, they control addictions, sleep, our emotional
1:46.5	eating, they control the stress response, they control our dopamine, our serotonin, our rewards,
1:52.8	they control our behavior, whether we approach something or avoid it, whether we freeze,
1:58.7	whether we fight or flight. So this is the master control switch of everything
2:02.2	we do and don't do. So how is it that we've made it this far in studying the brain and
2:08.2	we've overlooked this very important part? Yeah, so anatomically it was discovered back in like
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