Adrenaline and Parasympathetic Activation

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The idea here is that adrenaline protects us. You don't want it cascading out of control so that you can't sleep. Serotonin and oxytocin are molecules that make us feel good, make us feel soothed. So this might sound a little woo, but if you sit there and do a gratitude practice or you eat a meal, you're nourishing yourself with food not in the process of killing first.

Andrew Huberman, Ph.D., is a neuroscientist and tenured Professor in the Department of Neurobiology at the Stanford University School of Medicine. He has made numerous significant contributions to the fields of brain development, brain function and neural plasticity, which is the ability of our nervous system to rewire and learn new behaviors, skills and cognitive functioning.

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