Andrew Huberman· PhD
the way to think about social connection and how it can mitigate some of the long-term effects of stress is really through the systems of neuromodulation like serotonin serotonin again is a neuromodulator neuromodulators are a little bit like playist in the brain they tend to amplify or bias the likelihood that certain brain circuits and body circuits are going to be activated and that others will not serotonin generally gives us feelings of well-being at very high levels it makes us feel blissed and it tends to make us feel like we have enough in our immediate environment when we see somebody that we recognize and Trust serotonin is released in the brain and that has certain positive effects on the immune system and on other systems of neural repair and and synapses and things that really reinforce Connections in the brain and prevent that long-term withering of connections