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milushq said:I would like to know this too! As far as I know at the moment, you can only cut down tryptophan reach foods(like muscle meats, egg whites, bananas) and it will help with time. I also heard Dr. Peat once sad something about serotonin antogonist drugs, but he didn't mentioned the names of those. I assume, they are prescription drugs.
milushq said:I would like to know this too! As far as I know at the moment, you can only cut down tryptophan reach foods(like muscle meats, egg whites, bananas) and it will help with time. I also heard Dr. Peat once sad something about serotonin antogonist drugs, but he didn't mentioned the names of those. I assume, they are prescription drugs.
dsohei, welcome to the forum!dsohei said:Is there a way to flush excess serotonin from the gut or brain?
narouz said:milushq said:I would like to know this too! As far as I know at the moment, you can only cut down tryptophan reach foods(like muscle meats, egg whites, bananas) and it will help with time. I also heard Dr. Peat once sad something about serotonin antogonist drugs, but he didn't mentioned the names of those. I assume, they are prescription drugs.
I won't be able to put my hands on his quote now,
but I beleive,
when asked that same kind of question,
Dr. Peat said
"Coffee is the best chelator."
Usually I think of a chelator as being something that removes a heavy metal,
but I think Dr. Peat was using it in the context of PUFA removal.
I could be wrong.
I'll try to track down that reference.
And, more generally, Peat has said, simply,
that it is best to remove the PUFA slowly, over time.
Why?
I guess because he doesn't like running on (burning) stored fat
(which would be PUFA fat, for most).
And I guess because burning the PUFA fat quickly like that
would not be a safe removal--
it would sortuv re-poison one...?
Others, like Danny Roddy,
make the point (presumably taken from Peat)
that we all do, slowly, burn some fat all the time,
even if we are shifting or have shifted to burning sugars primarily.
And Peat would seem to believe that slow removal is the way to go.
Charlie said:Was reading Dr. Peats article about "Tryptophan, serotonin, and aging" and found this:
"If a half-pound of steak is eaten, it would probably be reasonable to have about 20 grams of gelatin at approximately the same time. Even a higher ratio of gelatin to muscle meat might be preferable.
"
dsohei said:I eat a half cup gelatin a day, about 50 grams. It may be healthy but does not reduce serotonin as the topic of this post.
Dsohei, I'm sorry, but Charlie was right on the topic with some exellent quotes of Dr.Peat about connection of tryptophan reach foods and serotonin."I eat a half cup gelatin a day, about 50 grams. It may be healthy but does not reduce serotonin as the topic of this post."
I think, he explained perfectly what to do to reduse serotonin release, you don't just need to eat a lot of gelatin, but you need to reduce your tryptophan reach food intake and do all of the other things he describes above.Carbon dioxide, high altitude, thyroid, progesterone, caffeine, aspirin, and decreased tryptophan consumption protect against excessive serotonin release. When sodium intake is restricted, there is a sharp increase in serotonin secretion. This accounts for some of the antiinflammatory and diuretic effects of increased sodium consumption--increasing sodium lowers both serotonin and adrenalin."