Elemental Profile · v1

Four elements.
One signature.

Ten questions to map your neurotransmitter tendency — how your nervous system spends energy, metabolizes stress, and chases reward. The result is not a personality test. It is a starting vector for the protocol that actually fits you.

~2 minutes · 10 questions · no email required

The four elements

Four profiles.
One signature is yours.

Each element is a shape — of how your nervous system spends energy, metabolizes stress, and chases reward. Skim the full library, or jump to yours if you already know it.

Fire

Dopaminergic drive

High-output, high-ignition. You run hot and you like it — until you don't.

Neurotransmitter
Dopamine · Testosterone-forward
Strength
Conversion rate on intensity. You extract more from effort than most people can survive.
Shadow
Dopamine debt. Stimulant creep. A nervous system that forgets how to downshift.

First protocols

  1. Protocol a real off-ramp: post-work deceleration, not a second shift.
  2. Treat cold, fasting and caffeine as prescriptions — dosed, not defaulted.
  3. Track HRV weekly. Use it as the honest check on the "I'm fine" reflex.

Water

Serotonergic depth

High-signal, low-noise. You feel the room before it speaks.

Neurotransmitter
Serotonin · Oxytocin-forward
Strength
Perception. You read people, systems, and rooms at a bandwidth others miss.
Shadow
Absorption. You carry what isn't yours and mistake it for depth.

First protocols

  1. Daylight before devices — serotonin is made in the morning, not at night.
  2. Zone-2 and water-based movement 3×/week to metabolize emotional load.
  3. Boundaries as a biology practice, not a personality trait.

Earth

Cholinergic structure

Quiet compounding. You are the person the system actually runs on.

Neurotransmitter
Acetylcholine · GABA-forward
Strength
Consistency. You turn protocols into defaults and defaults into a decade.
Shadow
Stagnation. Your nervous system prefers the known, even when the known is costing you.

First protocols

  1. One non-negotiable progressive overload — strength or cardio — that forces change.
  2. Rotate the stimulus every 90 days. Routine is the tool, not the identity.
  3. Blood panel + body comp twice a year. Let the numbers break the comfort.

Air

Adrenergic range

Fast processor. High bandwidth. The problem is the off-switch.

Neurotransmitter
Norepinephrine · Acetylcholine-forward
Strength
Synthesis. You connect signal across domains faster than anyone in the room.
Shadow
Mental volatility. Sleep erodes. Ideas outrun the body's ability to execute them.

First protocols

  1. Brain-down, body-up sequencing: physical loading before cognitive loading, daily.
  2. A single magnesium + L-theanine evening protocol to close the adrenergic loop.
  3. One focus block per day with the phone in another room. Range needs an anchor.

Not sure which one is yours? Take the 10-question assessment above.