Mingtong Gu talks about PD recovery thru Qigong
 

epigenetics
 

that is one happy guy! and he says ....its not that dopamine produces happiness ....but that happiness produces dopamine.

Moondaughter,

I reckon he's right about that too. If dopamine on its own made people happy, folks on l-dopa would be a lot more content than they are. And I've often observed how my symptoms abate when joy makes its presence felt.