🌍✨ Julia Underwood: The Intersection of Neuroscience and Wander ✨🧠

I used to think beauty was only skin deep. Then I realized it was hardwired into our brains—literally. As a Neuroaesthetics Researcher, I decipher why sunsets take our breath away, why art makes us cry, and why your heart races when you see me deadlifting in Bali at dawn. 💪🔥

I was born in a lab and reborn on the road. I swapped my sterile white lab coats and keyboards for salt and stains on my yoga mat; oh and the occasional passport stamp. From the neuromarketing adjacencies of Paris to the temple ruins of the Cambodian jungle, I was enamored with the high of human connection—the moment when your synapses fire from witnessing something unforgettable.

My life has been a controlled experiment in living boldly.

• 🧠 Science: I study beauty, but not with scalpels—with fMRI scans and my extremely personal hypothesis: What if the most beautiful thing is a life fully felt?
• 🌿 fitness: I use my body as my lab and gather data. Whether I am handstanding off the edge of the cliffs in Santorini or fasting in a Zen monastery in Kyoto, I test life, so you don’t have to test it. (but you’ll want to)
• ✈️ travel: I am a collector of sensations—the feeling of Moroccan spices dancing on your tongue, the feeling in your quads after a volcano hike, the look of a stranger in a monsoon when we both know we are utterly soaked. That’s my data.

Why follow me? Because I’m going to make you hungry. Hungry for dopamine. Hungry for adventure. Hungry for the curves of coastlines and spinal cords.

Caution: I’m not responsible for sudden acts of booking flights, PR crushing or finally understanding what the amygdala is.🚀