Falling in Love with your Work Life: Take a Break and Eat Some Chocolate.
This month, The Levo League is focusing on you— specifically, we’re focusing on helping you to be able to take your work life from being A Job to being Your Life’s Work. Sometimes this journey involves huge steps, like realizing you need a new career. Sometimes, though, the journey takes small detours.
Today’s small detour is chocolate.
That’s right— the tried and true trite truism of Valentine’s Day. Chocolate: the knee-jerk invisible best friend of women everywhere. It feels like a stereotype, and of course that’s because it has come to be one. But neuroscience dictates that chocolate in the lives of women— and, well, anyone who needs to relax— has a broader value-add. Get ready for something that’ll make you simultaneously giggle and think “Ohhhhh- Now it all makes sense.”
Chocolate contains trace amounts of anandamides. Anandamides are amazing. They bond with the same neurotransmitters that cannabis does. THC. Weed. Chocolate has chemicals that function in a semi-similar way to marijuana. The Journal of Neuroscience thinks so, and so do we. The difference is namely in the in vitro and in vivo effects: in other words, the difference is that marijuana stays in the bloodstream much longer and creates a longer-lasting high.
Really adds dimension to those Dove commercials with blissed-out looking ladies.
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