Is the desire to travel genetic?

Did you know there is a gene related to those with a thirst for travel and adventure? Cutting-edge research shows DRD4-7R, nicknamed the wanderlust gene, impacts your dopamine levels and thus impacts your tolerance for risk taking, and possibly shapes other behaviours and motivations common to travel lovers.



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“When travel is motivated by a desire to escape reality,” she adds, “to embrace a nearly fictional experience that is free of the burdens of life…the experience becomes escapist in quality.”

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The definition for wanderlust is a simple one: A strong desire to travel. But the word encompasses so much more; when we travel we are victims of the unknown, we are students of a foreign world. We think about traveling before we fall asleep, as we make our daily commute, or when scanning a morning magazine.

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Wanderlust may reflect an intense urge for self-development by experiencing the unknown, confronting unforeseen challenges, getting to know unfamiliar cultures, ways of life and behaviours or may be driven by the desire to escape and leave behind depressive feelings of guilt, and has been linked to bipolar disorder in ...

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When we break a cycle that we have become way too comfortable with, we are living. Traveling and adventuring improves our cognition and allows us to reactivate our mental reward system. It also forces us to leave our comfort zones which can help with anxiety disorders and so much more!

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Travel Addiction Is A Real Medical Condition! Here's All You Need To Know About Dromomania. Dromomania: An uncontrollable impulse or desire to wander or travel. For all we know, there's no such thing as too much travelling.

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Hodophobia is the medical term for an extreme fear of traveling. Some people call it “trip-a-phobia.” It's often a heightened fear of a particular mode of transportation, such as airplanes.

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