Andrew Huberman· PhD
particular music evoking the release of neurochemicals in your brain at a particular frequency so just think about that for a second we know that neurochemicals such as dopamine serotonin some of the so-called endogenous opioids right these aren't opioids that people take this isn't related to the opioid crisis we're talking about endogenous opioids that are released in response to music things like exercise different types of social interactions those and other chemicals are released according to the firing of specific neurons and we know that when you listen to music at particular frequencies arranged in particular motifs Etc that the neurons that release those neurochemicals are firing at those same frequencies in other words that the sound is causing a sound-dependent pharmacologic concert within your brain