Want To Be Happy? Try These Simple Mood Boosting Hacks
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🗓️ 17 May 2026
⏱️ 15 minutes
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There are four different happy hormones inside all of us, and they each have a specific function that contributes to our overall happiness. We go over each of the hormones, from serotonin to dopamine to endorphins to oxytocin, and explain what they do to trigger joy. Just a few changes to your routine, could make a huge impact on your mood.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.6 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:06.0 | Hey, the folks, it is Sunday, May 17th, and it's time to get dopamine up. |
| 0:13.1 | Roboc has some tricks, some hacks, but I'm told they all will work to make you get happy even when you don't think you can. |
| 0:24.8 | With that, welcome to this episode of Amy and TJ. All right, you certainly got my attention, |
| 0:28.4 | Robs. |
| 0:28.8 | Yeah, and it's a way to trigger your brain's happy chemicals without taking any chemicals. |
| 0:35.4 | No meds. |
| 0:36.3 | This isn't about what you can drink or eat or what pill you can take. |
| 0:41.0 | No, this is just some simple tips that will literally and have been proven to boost these chemicals |
| 0:47.9 | that are in your brain that create a feeling of happiness. |
| 0:51.2 | You can make yourself happy. |
| 0:52.1 | Yes, there are four happy. |
| 0:53.1 | Chemically happy. |
| 0:53.8 | This is not you just trying to fake the funk. You can actually turn on happiness. You can make yourself happy. Yes, there are four happy. Chemically happy. This is not you just trying to fake the funk. You can actually turn on happiness. You can change your body chemistry, okay? Which leads to a better mood and happiness. All right then, all right. Do you know what the four happy hormones are? Yes, because you just hold me them in a short time ago. And you're really good at recalling, aren't you? I'm not going to do a Q&A. Let's go. All right. So the first one is dopamine. Dopamine is referred to as the |
| 1:17.3 | reward chemical. It helps us feel pleasure as a part of our brain's reward system. I don't know that I |
| 1:24.2 | realize that. That that specifically is triggered by feelings of |
| 1:29.1 | satisfaction or that you're rewarding yourself for something. |
| 1:34.0 | Yes, is that the thing when you get, uh, or get compliments or awards, isn't that the thing? |
| 1:38.4 | Dopamine is triggered? |
| 1:39.2 | Is that right? |
| 1:39.7 | Yes. |
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