Hacking Happiness by DOSE

According to the Global Wellness institute, the wellness industry is now valued at a whopping $4.2 trillion globally. We’re no longer dabbling with going to the gym or getting the occasional massage - a wellness mindset is starting to permeate the global consumer consciousness, affecting daily decision-making. Among the wellness markets analysed is wellness tourism. A $639 billion industry, which in a nutshell, is travel for the purpose of promoting health and well-being through physical, psychological, or spiritual activities. Like a yoga retreat. Someone who is a true veteran in this area is today’s guest Mercedes Sieff - one of the UK’s leading yoga teachers (you can find her at Triyoga in Camden and Chelsea) and co founder, alongside her husband Simon, of Yeotown - the award winning health retreat in Devon.

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At DOSE we are obsessed with finding our equilibrium by keeping our happy hormones in check - so we’ve been eagerly anticipating the launch of a new app designed to do just that. MoodyMonth aims to help women better understand their hormones, cycles and moods. The app allows you to log your mood, physical symptoms (such as bloating, cramps, or tiredness), and external pressures such as worries about work or friends and get monthly reports of your logs and memos helping you see patterns and changes. Think of it like “mood forecasting”: it will sync up with your calendar and pull in details such as the weather, as well as your hormonal cycle, in order to present a visual report that could offer clues to why you’re feeling down, to make you feel better. MoodyMonth is the brainchild of marketing genius Amy Thomson, who suffered adrenal fatigue after building a multi-million pound global marketing agency in her twenties, working with global brands such as Nike, Microsoft and RBS.

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The book, Sex, Drugs & Rock & Roll – The Science of Hedonism and Hedonism of Science by Zoe Cormier, explores how hedonistic impulses inform our highest pursuits, and how the renegades of science have illuminated the secrets of our deepest impulses. I came across Zoe when I was exploring my happy hormones at Secret Garden Party – she used to run events celebrating scientific discovery at music festivals. This book blew my mind, especially the section on drugs that discusses how our relationship with narcotics helps us to identify many of our most powerful neurotransmitters such as dopamine, oxytocin, serotonin and endorphins. She is a huge inspiration of mine, which is why I asked her to kick off our podcast series.

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