Episode Transcript: #502 - Dr. Rhonda Patrick
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Hello, Rhonda.
Hello, Joe.
You're the only person that's ever come in, sat down, and said,
oh, this is good, I'm getting a cortisol rush.
He said you're getting a cortisol rush from the feeling of about to do a podcast.
Yeah, actually, I could have gone a little more detail, but I was like, oh.
Please do.
Yeah, so that feeling of anxiety that you get before you get on stage,
I mean, you're a comedian.
I'm sure you're really familiar with that.
You actually are expressing a chemical called dynorphin.
It's an endogenous chemical in your brain,
and it binds to something called the kappa opioid receptor.
It's kind of like the counter of the endorphin,
which binds to the mu opioid receptor.
So the endorphins are the feel-good.
Well, its nemesis is the dynorphin, which is that anxiety-like feeling.