Happiness is Like Bread: You Can’t Bake It Without Yeast
Happiness is a lot like bread. You can’t create it without a few key ingredients, and those ingredients are probably not what you imagine they are.
Body: The biological strategies for happiness focus on improving your well-being by providing your body with what it needs to feel good. Happiness begins with your brain’s ability to produce the feel-good neurotransmitters, including serotonin, oxytocin, endorphins, and dopamine, and to reduce the impact of the less pleasant neurotransmitters, such as cortisol and epinephrine. Enough sleep, the right foods, and healthy movement are the essential components of biological happiness.
Happiness is a lot like bread. You can’t create it without a few key ingredients, and those ingredients are probably not what you imagine they are.
Let’s take a look at the scientific reasons why choosing to prioritize getting seven to eight hours of sleep every single night is also choosing happiness.