The Biggest Life Hack in Today's World

what if I told you there's one thing

that you can do that will lower your

depression your anxiety your sense of

hopelessness help you form connections

and cut back on unhealthy coping me

mechanisms like going to your goon cave

every single day what if I told you

there's one thing that would do that and

you'd be like yeah sign me up what

supplement is it is it a course what is

it meditation it's not meditation it's

not journaling it's not therapy it's

actually being nice to other human

beings and the mechanism this of this is

fascinating so if you give someone this

is a really cool study if you boost

someone's serotonin transmission they

become more empathic in the reverse is

also true that when we become more

empathic our serotonergic circuitry

actually gets buffed which is why we see

that people who are empathic have lower

levels of depression and anxiety and

what is the treatment that we use for

depression and anxiety it's giving

people serotonin selective serotonin

reuptake Inhibitors we basically boost

their serotonin transmission