Mental Health: Here’s How You Can Boost Happy Hormones Through Simple Lifestyle Changes

 

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We all want happiness because it’s a wonderful emotion that can make you laugh or cry and is contagious. Chemical processes in our bodies make us happy, chirpy, or exhilarated.
To be happy, you must know what ‘happy hormones’ are and how to boost their production. This article lists the happy hormones our bodies produce and how to boost their production.

The ‘happy hormones’ are:

Serotonin regulates mood, digestion, hunger, sleep, learning, and memory.

Dopamine is a neurotransmitter that plays a key role in the brain’s reward system. It’s linked to learning, memory, and positive emotions.

3. Endorphins are hormones your body naturally produces to relieve pain. Eating, exercising, or having sex can raise levels.

4. Oxytocin, the ‘love hormone,’ is important for nursing, birth, and parent-child relationships. It promotes partnership bonding, empathy, and trust. Affection raises levels.

Now that you know what happy hormones are, learn which lifestyle changes can boost their production.

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Lifestyle choices can boost hormone production:
1. Exercise
Most know exercise releases endorphins. Any exercise that raises your heart rate makes you feel good, and a strenuous workout may make you euphoric. Endorphins interact with your brain’s pain receptors to reduce pain.

2. HH-boosting foods
Diet affects hormone function. Dark chocolate’s high phenylethylamine content may boost your mood. Chilli, which contains capsaicin, oily fish for omega-3 fatty acids, coffee (in moderation), and tryptophan-containing foods such as chicken, eggs, milk, nuts, and seeds can improve mood.

3. Get a Massage
Massage releases endorphins and stimulates oxytocin production in both the recipient and the masseuse. Similarly, acupuncture, chiropractic care, and hydrotherapy relax and reduce pain.

4. More laughter
Comedies release endorphins. Laughter reduces stress, boosts immunity, and improves mood. Laughter therapy is a recognised cognitive behavioural therapy for treating stress and sadness.

5. Solarium
Vitamin D can also be obtained by exposing the skin to early morning or late afternoon sunlight. In addition to maintaining bone and immune system health, this vitamin indirectly promotes serotonin production, which can reduce depressive symptoms.

6. Music
Music increases happy hormones beyond one. Instrumental music, especially chill music, can boost dopamine levels. If you enjoy music, just listening to it may help. Your serotonin levels may rise if your mood improves.

7. Gratitude
By showing gratitude, the brain releases feel-good chemicals. Many people keep a gratitude notebook in which they list their blessings; others do the “three blessings exercise” every night.

8. Cold shower
Cold water will awaken your body’s endorphins and make you feel euphoric. Many studies have examined cold water exposure and therapy. Cold showers produce endorphins, the body’s natural painkillers, which improve mood.

You can boost your happy hormones naturally and safely in many ways.