• There is a serious amount of evidence linking release of oxytocin and dopamine to doing rewarding physical activity. Instead, people have fucked up their dopamine receptors by living the trashy sedentary junk lifestyle, and cheating their way through dopamine pleasures.

    It is lots of hormonal play. Serotonin for example is lacking in people because they binge shows and do not sleep much. It is a whole ecosystem of vice at this point.

    I have my own gym at home, practice MMA, have a physique and natural, peaceful and educational lifestyle people salivate over, and can tell literally everything and anything that people do wrong in their lives.

    • Sure, being generally unhealthy can have a significant effect, but that doesn’t mean it’s the main culprit. It’s great that you have the motivation to do these things, but not everyone does, no matter what the cause of depression is, and even if the resulting lack of physical activity compounds the negative effects.

      Anyway, it seems that we agree that it’s not only caused by individuals actively choosing to be unhealthy.

      (I’m assuming you’re being hyperbolic with that last sentence)