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Trigger Your Happy Brain Chemicals with Flowers

written by Loretta Graziano Breuning, PhD March 10, 2020
Trigger Your Happy Brain Chemicals with Flowers

Flowers can make you happy by triggering your happy brain chemicals.

Happy Brain Chemicals

Dopamine

Dopamine is triggered by the expectation of a reward. Flowers were a huge reward signal in the world our brain evolved in because they marked the coming of abundance after a hungry winter. Today we have enough to eat all year round so we don’t consciously link flowers with food. However, the blossoming of a flower triggers the sense that something special is coming because it triggers dopamine.

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