Serotonin dubs thee sleepless

[Hans]

How often do you still hear that serotonin helps with sleep? Well if someone says that to you again, show them this.

Serotonin dubs thee sleepless » TESTONATION

Serotonin is synonymous with sleep. The misconception that serotonin promotes sleep is as strong as the dubious claim that serotonin is the “happiness” hormone. Want to sleep better? Boost your serotonin. But does it really help? What if it actually does the opposite? What sleep looks like There...

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[qminati]

I believe 100% that high serotonin as a teenager is what caused me a lifetime of insomnia and sleep paralysis. The one strange thing to note is that a supplement that had 5htp was my go to supplement that would actually make me fall asleep if I took enough of it. It was a mix of other herbs and melatonin and 5htp. This is before I even knew what serotonin really was. Still confused about it all...

 

[Hans]

I believe 100% that high serotonin as a teenager is what caused me a lifetime of insomnia and sleep paralysis. The one strange thing to note is that a supplement that had 5htp was my go to supplement that would actually make me fall asleep if I took enough of it. It was a mix of other herbs and melatonin and 5htp. This is before I even knew what serotonin really was. Still confused about it all...

Low energy ultimately leads to high serotonin. Eg. fasting, IF, CR, all lead to an increase in serotonin and a drop in dopamine. I think the main reason the 5-HTP supplement helped was because it contained many other compounds as well that increased GABA for example.