Feed Your Orgasmic Brain

What does it mean to “feed your brain”? 

For me it is the careful balance between mindfulness, flow states, food, sleep, stress, and an intentional dance with psychoactive substances.

It starts with being present in mind and body, with listening and feeling into the magical connectivity happening as neurons signal brain and body to work in concert.  

While getting mind and body to flow seamlessly does not always come easy, with patience and practice, it is possible. 

Be Still. Listen. Feel. Breathe.

Optimal brain / body connectivity comes with health centric mindfulness; with supporting neuroplasticity and fortifying the connection between ECS, CNS, Brain-Gut and Hypothalamic-Pituitary-Adrenal (HPA) axes all with the goal of regulating homeostasis. 

Tuning into your body, dialing in meditative practices and flow states, slowing down, managing stress, and unpacking trauma can all lead to better health.  The food we eat and how we manage our time impacts complex signals and mind body communication. 

Between brain and body there is a big bundle of signals, complex information channels designed to achieve balance and homeostasis. Our job is to feed it and provide the best possible environment to do its job and run smoothly. 

With practice you can still your mind, you can listen, feel, breathe and react for better health and longevity. 

When you’re ready to listen, your body will speak to you.

Tanya’s Tips: Using biometric devices such as Oura, Garmin, Apple or Whoop to track, manage and tune in to sleep, activities, readiness, cardiovascular health and even temperature relative to hormones is powerful information that can help you build practices and routines around better health and longevity.  

Activate Your “Flow State”

What does it mean to activate your “Flow State”?

***Inversions to drop you into Flow***

A “Flow State” comes with deep concentration, focus, and mindfulness. It flows best when one is fully immersed in an activity. It can feel as if time is lost and comes with a sense of effortless control. 

Dialing in flow states takes practice and is best served by building routines that become rituals. Like all good things, you will get better and better with practice. 

Find what gets you there and prioritize your time accordingly. For me it comes with daily hot yoga, running, creative thinking, writing and, of course, organic sex. 

Once you are familiar with this space, the feeling of flow, you will learn to set up your environment to drop in quickly. Dial in your space to serve you. That can mean music, lighting, visuals, temperature, or indulging in nature by yourself or with a trusted partner.

Explore what speaks to you, listen and repeat. 

Tanya’s Tips: Practicing “flow states” including regular orgasmic pleasure activates testosterone and sends dopamine, endorphins, serotonin, and oxytocin through mind and body. It lights up neural pathways and can lead to bliss. @YestoSex Dancing with Estrogen, Cannabis and Orgasms.

Eat for Brain Health 

Your brain relies on the food you eat for energy, processing, memory and longevity.  What you feed it matters. The relationship between your brain and gut shapes your ability to process information, your energy levels and overall health. 

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If you are able to eliminate toxins in the food you eat, the air you breath and stress you manage you can free your mind and body to work more efficiently. 

For me this starts with the food I eat and the activities prioritized. My diet includes no meat, little sugar or alcohol, and as many veggies, fruit and proteins as I can eat. Coffee and cannabis are staples.  

If you are consuming ultra processed foods you are requiring your brain-gut-body to focus on toxins instead of using valuable energy and communication pathways to create balance.

My 12 “Must Have’s” on Weekly Grocery List  

• Stumptown Hair Bender Coffee Beans 

• Mixed Greens (washed) 

• Seasonal Berries (strawberries, raspberries, mulberries) 

• Organic Cosmic Apples 

• Mushrooms 

• Red Cabbage 

• Sun Dried Tomatoes (Fresh) 

• Fage Greek Yogurt - Plain 2% Milkfat 

• Cage Free Eggs 

• Smoked Salmon (fully cooked) 

• Nuts - Sliced Almonds / Pistachios

• Hummus 

Tanya’s Tips: Check out https://www.brainhealthkitchen.com/menu-blog/Dr. Annie Fenn for brain healthy recipes. 

Regulating Circadian Rhythm & Stress  

Sleep matters. Your brain and body will thrive on predictable recovery time. Working in a good, regular, 8 hours of sleep over a 24 hour period can be life changing. It can enable your circadian rhythm to fall into habits that blow open communication and free your mind to flow, dream, think and create.

Giving your brain and body the time and space it needs to function optimally; listening to what it needs while reducing the impact of undue stress and toxic chemicals is a practice you will learn to expect as you think and process more clearly. This is a good thing.

While trauma and chronic stress can deeply imprint causing debilitating health and cognitive issues that need to be unpacked, not all stress is bad. Immediate and environmental stress triggers the sympathetic nervous system and HPA axis activating adrenaline. This can be an effective tool to signal healthy reactions our system can learn from.

As for Circadian Rhythm, this "master clock" has about 20,000 nerve cells and is driven by both genes and environment. Both nature and nurture play their part as we rely on the suprachiasmatic nucleus, an internal thermostat, for controls.

Nature vs. Nature

The food we eat, the activities we prioritize, the company we keep, and our environment each impact how we live and feel. While giving your brain and body healthy, predictable experiences that let it thrive go a long way, genes do matter.

Furthermore, men and women are different, XX and XY chromosomes are initiated in utero with the placenta signaling protection messages that are different between the sexes causing our hormonal make up, chemical and cognitive responses to act differently.

Men and women are created differently. It is important to understand, listen to respond to our needs realtive to our individual DNA. This means we need to acknowledge and learn from both genes and chromosomes.

A reoccurring theme in ,y article, we have only begun to tap the surface when it comes to studying women's health and longevity. Due to hormonal differences and childbirth, it is only recently that we are prioritizing the study of women's health.

Tanya's Tips: You are your own best advocate. When seeking medical care build a team of up-to-date experts that resonates with you. If AFAB, understand that science is catching up, it is important to look forward not back.

Your Brain on Drugs 

Born in 1968, I grew up with easy access to drugs despite overwhelming prohibition "messaging" that leaned on fear rather than education. There was little differentiation between psychoactive substances and crack, cocaine, or heroine. In the '80's the U.S. waged "War on Drugs". D.A.R.E., fear mongering, and the analogy that taking drugs, including cannabis and classical psychedelics, was the equivalent of my brain in a frying pan prevailed.

***This Is Your Brain on Drugs ***

While prohibition has been proven not deter use, it also disseminated misinformation and limited buying options to cartel-driven, black markets while imploding disadvantaged communities and curtailing research on plants and fungi that grow abundantly.

Fast forward to 2025, I choose to live between Colorado and Oregon, States where both cannabis and classical psychedelics are decriminalized and have found a path a research and legalization.

Flow states, orgasmic pleasure, even intentional use of cannabis or classical psychedelics can be used to blow open the "doors of perception", increase neuroplasty, and improve cognitive skills. If this is a journey you wish to explore, educate yourself. There is a 'brave new world' ahead and science has joined the party.

Tanya's Tips: When using cannabis or classical psychedelics it is important to buy from a trusted source. Remember to use with intention, dial in set and setting, start slow, mind your dosing, track your experience, and practice. Learn more @YestoSex - https://www.ooyes.love/post/a-guide-to-sex-and-cannabis