I was originally going to pose it as a question, but as I started writing what you see below, I realize its not a question its a fact. All human beings are drug addicts of some sort.

Do you like to feel happy? ( dopamine) Do you like to feel calm or at peace? ( serotonin and or GABA) Do you like the feeling of a loved ones touch? Do you love the feeling of the touch of your baby? Its oxytocin. Read more about Oxytocin on PubMed.

Have you ever run 5 miles or engaged in any sport where you literally felt “high” when it was over? ( endorphins, the same chemical as that is released when you take morphine)

Do you like those feelings? Do you like feeling sad? Do you like feeling depressed? Have you ever eaten carbohydrates to an excess? Do you ever crave chocolate? Do you ever crave anything sweet? Do you play video games? Do you watch TV? Do you feel good after speaking to a loved one?

Have you ever felt an uncontrolled desire to eat carbs or something sweet? Its all drugs. In fact craving sweets might simply be low blood sugar. PS that could be easily cured with more protein and fat in your meals so your blood sugar stabilizes for longer periods of time.

In fact check out my ideas on breakfast. Notice how quickly you are famished after a simple carb (donut) breakfast vs eggs vs a protein shake.

Everything you do and eat all day long will affect the drugs, or chemicals and or hormones in your body. What you eat affects the insulin in your blood stream. The exercise will create the endorphins and dopamine in your brain.

I ran 5 miles a day for around 30 years. The past 17 years or so I have tried to recreate my “highs”, my runners high, with amino acids and supplements. I have had some success with different combinations of glutamine, phenylalanine, tryptophan tyrosine either in pill or powdered form.

I have also tried to notice the benefit of my omega 3’s (the particular part of the fish oils or walnut or olive oils or sardines especially the components of DHA that are literally brain food.

I religiously write down everything that I do and that passes my lips every single day. ( I have the excel sheets for every day and time of day and what I ate and the supplements I took and the activities I engaged in and how I felt.

OK I know I am nuts. I agree. PS nuts are good for you pure fat and protein, some more so than others. Walnuts great in omega 3s some say peanuts are the garbage nut but its high in arginine.

Sorry for the segue. But the point is I kind of love love love studying human nature, what makes us tick, what makes us happy, what makes us a “successful drug addict” vs an unsuccessful one.

WE ARE ALL DRUG ADDICTS

Your only goal in life is for you just have to figure out how to become a successful one.
Do you crave the thrill of making more and more money even if you are already a billionaire?

I would say if you are doing it with integrity and haven’t hurt anyone and donate to charity and don’t ignore your family. You, my friend are a successful drug addict, because you are addicted to the thrill of making ever more large comes of money and the rush of dopamine not only when you succeed but it is also created by. the friction of striving.

Do you crave the feelings that you get from family? Successful. Do you crave the excitement you get from cheating? You are clearly a very unsuccessful person.

Do you run 5 miles a day because you know you will get the runner high (endorphins)? Again assuming you don’t have to get your hips and knees replaced, you too are a successful drug addict.

Sitting on the couch eating marshmallows and potato chips, you are also a drug addict obviously not a successful one.

Are you a woman that had 12 children that has successfully created a clan or enough kids to populate both teams of pretty much most sports and they are a loving group of people that brings you untold amounts of oxytocin and all kinds of other drugs that I probably need to look up, LOL. But you have satisfied your needs and desires in a healthy way.

Are you constantly craving orgasms, but either get it from your monogamous partner or from masturbation, but not to the point where you are sitting home playing with yourself all day? Besides having a partner that cherishes the amount of time you are intimate, you too are a successful drug addict.

Do you crave the release of endorphins you get when you do volunteer work every single week or day? you are a successful drug addict.

Do you go to yoga every day? Do you go to the gym every day? Do you simply work out at home every day? You are a successful drug addict. Besides endorphins you are also releasing dopamine, adrenaline and endocannabinoids.

I can give so many examples I could fill a 200 page book, and if i was in it just for the money we could easily do that and it would easily make a best seller and we can expand on all of the drugs in our body and brain and how to produce them with amino acids and activities. But if I can just say it here and now I could possibly help countless people if this is shared today vs plotting and scheming to just make this about money and get it published years from now.

SO HERE IS THE POINT. As so many have said in so many different ways as an animal on this planet we seek to avoid pain and get pleasure, you merely have to at the very least, recognize what you do every day. The activities that you engage in and the things that you do, so you do more of the healthy ones and less of the unhealthy ones. ie more yoga more protein less Starbucks and Dunkin’ Donuts Two more that will never sponsor me, Gee I guess I am never going to make any money, But I might have the joy of helping people and connecting with people I have yet to meet.

Heck if I wanted to write a book I would suggest we do it like counting cards. If you ever read a book on counting cards for Black Jack since the dealer must hit on 16 you count the numbers of 5s and 6s which benefit the dealer, ( they get minus 1) and you also count picture cards ( plus one makes dealer bust) and you bet more or less depending on when the count favors you

Sorry for the analogy, But you would count plus one for healthy supplements especially ones that directly affect your brain, like fish oils and specific amino acids. So every 3 supplements are plus one ( assuming most people take less than 10) so the most you get is probably plus 3

Then. you get minus one for every 100 grams of sugar or 100 grams of pure starch, You get plus one for every hour of activity. You get plus one for every mile you walk or run. and so forth and so on. And we can pretty much determine if you are going to have a happy or a sad day.

OK HERE IS ANOTHE BIG BIG ONE!

Coming from me who is literally the most studied or neurotic person you have probably read I don’t care which adjective you want to use. I choose scholarly with more first hand experience of the most pleasurable drugs on the planet than any doctor or neuroscientist. Unless you know one that can literally compare cocaine to meditating.

So I have the most personal experience coupled with 5 decades of learning everything about supplements and self development and here is the BIG ONE
I recently discovered that I can replicate the best chemicals, dopamine and endorphins from simply “being” Every day is pure joy, that is why I write. I have meditated before, I did 2 years of transcendental meditation. I got to the point where I could literally see myself walking down the street from above. I will never forget it. I was on the corner of Lexington Avenue and 45th Street in New York, and I was looking down at the top of my head while I was still walking admiring what a nice body I was enjoying in this lifetime. It was so real it freaked me out to this day. I have also done the Sedona Method for around three decades, I also ran 5 miles a day for 3 decades. I have also taken every supplement on the planet

Somehow, today, just “being” and living in joy with no cares in the world without wanting anything from anyone or anything the happy chemicals are flowing. I know exactly what it feels like. It was like the biggest light bulb ever and the feeling was so familiar that I had to start searching the internet and I found that indeed you can release dopamine and endorphins from merely meditating or being.

So read up or search ways to release endorphins you will see everything from massage, accupuncture, specific supplements, acts of kindness, dark chocolate, Ginko, sunlight, to morphine exercise and laughter.

Trust me if you can reach peace and joy in your life, it will happen naturally. I can’t begin to tell you how happy I am to have gotten to that place. I have no idea what is next. Sometimes I think the only thing that could possibly come after this is death, I can’t get any “higher”

But I can say its been a lifetime of searching from my first cigarette at 12 years old to heroin cocaine, to sobriety, health nut ( not a drop of sugar or carbs rice, bread or potatoes for years, running 5 miles a day for 30 years, tons of supplements, Cryotherapy ( -273 F) accupuncture. I have tried everything

“Nothing” is the way. But you must find a way to be at peace. You must let go of all your worries and desires to control the world and the people around you, your loved ones. You have to let go of it all and you will be so at peace, that you will be at joy, and the feeling that arises from within can only be compared to the strongest drugs on the planet that mimic and release our feel good chemicals. Because literally that is what is happening, pure joy.