Dopamine …

Over the past 15 years the word ‘Dopamine’ has moved up on my list of priorities! Over the past two years I have set out on a quest to hack into the dopamine! This is partly because I am In love with the neuroscientist and podcaster Andrew Hubermann. It seems that every middle aged man is in love with Joe Rogan so why can’t I be in love with the Huubster? 

The only problem is I hate exercising which crosses that one off the list of dopamine inducers. I tend to prefer a more sedentary type of exercise like meditation or yoga or lying in my bed watching Netflix, something that makes me feel relaxed. 

My husband on the other hand,  likes to repeatedly get himself beaten up whilst cuddling men and women and rolling around on the floor with peoples bottoms in his face, in the form of Jiu-Jitsu. I personally cannot think of anything worse. 

So we have installed the poor persons version of a pool. A paddling pool, which can give you a hit of dopamine that affects you for 3 hours. Oh, I forgot you need to add ice,  so that doesn’t count either. I will put that on my list! 

So now… whilst my husband is lying in bed with a twisted ankle 

(last year), a cracked rib (this year),   oh….and a bulging disk, I am lying in the pool drinking a cocktail! 

I will continue with my love affair of neuroscience podcasts and research articles which get into the nitty gritty, (even though I have to pause them to write notes and highlight parts). I will dive into my books which enlighten me on the teachings of the brain (be it all six of them which I have half read next to my bed), as all of these are piecing together the jigsaw puzzle which is my brain.