T.S Wiley on Serotonin.

[Greg says]

I read this book 5 years ago but never took notice on her serotonin stand point.

'Serotonin is much misunderstood in the media. Most people in this country and probably a fair number of doctors believe that low serotonin levels in the brain are the cause of depression and anxiety, when just the opposites true.

Serotonin is the neuro-transmitter in charge of impulse. The way serotonin controls your impulsiveness is very sneaky. Serotonin does it by reducing your ability to make connections. Memory retrieval is blunted because high serotonin filter out input. Dopamine, on the other hand, puts everything in sharp focus.

Serotonin levels always match insulin levels.

Symptoms of higher than normal serotonin, which are classic in panicked animals and depressed people are alike; Withdrawal, immobility and defensiveness (aggression and submission). High serotonin causes a rigidity of behaviour that can be repetitive (OCD).

Nature says if serotonin is high, dopamine must be low. When scientists first tested serotonin lowering drugs, which had the potential to treat depression, on rats, they seemed to act as aphrodisiacs. In a serotonin absent state, the rats displayed terrifying sexual frenzy.

In garden variety depression, your symptoms are responses that are ancient manifestations of fear and panic resulting from high serotonin. A chronic high serotonin state reads as endless stress or a threat you'll never work your way out of, no matter what. The lives we lead and the food we eat create, through high-serotonin state, a permanently hopeless state of mind.

Never ending higher than normal serotonin makes you feel so sad because you live day in day out as tough you ere under threat.'

Lights Out. Sleep, Sugar, and Survival. - T.S. Wiley PhD.

T.S. Wiley goes on to talk out serotonin resistance ('When we are under chronic, inescapable stress, serotonin output eventually drops altogether from the feedback loop of serotonin resistance and allows dopamine to search for escape'), caused by too much carbs and having the lights on all the time.

 

[RPDiciple]

awesome. Thanx

What does T.S Wiley say about sleep? i think i read the book but im not sure. In terms of when to go to sleep etc

 

[Klaudia]

I've just found her on YT. Good hair indicates health but she seems a bit/much overweight (especially Google Graphics pcts.) Any thought on that?

 

[Greg says]

She says that we all got ill the same time the light bulb was invented and its making us think its summer all the time so we consume to much carbohydrates.

According to Wiley, during the winter months the body needs more sleep, and carbohydrates should be restricted as they would have been naturally during hunter-gatherer times. Wiley theorizes that the body's responses are cyclical, reflecting the seasons of the year, and that the body's needs vary seasonally.

Recommends sleeping longer in dark rooms. I think she's also big on bio-identical hormone therapy.

 

[Filip1993]

She looks very unhealthy.

 

[uuy8778yyi]

no

serotonin is the happy hormone

it makes you happy and levels must be increased

also consider a fish oil supplement for essential omega 3,
omega 3 salmon,
and a raw chocolate bar,
also consider raw almond flour for baking

 

[RPDiciple]

no

serotonin is the happy hormone

it makes you happy and levels must be increased

also consider a fish oil supplement for essential omega 3,
omega 3 salmon,
and a raw chocolate bar,
also consider raw almond flour for baking

plz get the **** out, you have been spamming this forum with so much bull**** that its crazy

 

[RPDiciple]

She says that we all got ill the same time the light bulb was invented and its making us think its summer all the time so we consume to much carbohydrates.

According to Wiley, during the winter months the body needs more sleep, and carbohydrates should be restricted as they would have been naturally during hunter-gatherer times. Wiley theorizes that the body's responses are cyclical, reflecting the seasons of the year, and that the body's needs vary seasonally.

Recommends sleeping longer in dark rooms. I think she's also big on bio-identical hormone therapy.

omg she looks like a regular McDonalds customer

 

[haidut]

no

serotonin is the happy hormone

it makes you happy and levels must be increased

also consider a fish oil supplement for essential omega 3,
omega 3 salmon,
and a raw chocolate bar,
also consider raw almond flour for baking

plz get the f*** out, you have been spamming this forum with so much bull**** that its crazy

Hey, "uuyv...".
Did you see the studies on depression I posted recently?
viewtopic.php?f=75&t=5940
viewtopic.php?f=75&t=6480

Keep in mind that this is mainstream science admitting that at best low serotonin does not cause depression, and at worst high serotonin does cause it.

 

[Stilgar]

Ok, she doesn't look great. But her serotonin stuff is good, and she is very articulate and funny in interviews I have seen.

She seems to suffer from getting carried away with the momentum of a radical idea, only to stop examining the complexities and how often the inverse of a concept can be true (as she describes herself in with serotonin). Selling books tends to guide that narrow mindedness.

Seeing as she is post menopausal and presumably takes both estrogen and progesterone, the likely culprit of her appearance is obvious, along with poor carbohydrate intake in winter.

 

[BobbyDukes]

no

serotonin is the happy hormone

it makes you happy and levels must be increased

also consider a fish oil supplement for essential omega 3,
omega 3 salmon,
and a raw chocolate bar,
also consider raw almond flour for baking

plz get the f*** out, you have been spamming this forum with so much bull**** that its crazy

He was being sarcastic dude.

 

[pboy]

yea the article seems pretty accurate, albeit in a rudimentary way...but it looks like she herself hasn't figured out how to solve the problem even tho she knows about it. Carbs are needed to blunt cortisol which raises serotonin over time...so I don't agree with her stuff on restricting carbs and natural hunter gatherer...people forget hunter gatherer was just a tiny part of human history..the vast majority they were in African jungles eating raw food and insects, so you could make that argument also...but I digress (I don't actually know or care what the human history is, we can easily use our senses in the present and figure out what to eat).

The thing with lights is also true, its subtle but does play a big factor. Basically though you can use basic, low watt incandescent at night and it doesn't matter, cause the green and blue are so weak, but basically any other light or even a too bright incandescent does mess with circadian rythemn, melatonin, intestinal defragging, and all that...probably eating more than a little after dark is equally bad, they go hand in hand
This is why I say and know from experience that diet is only about half the equation...diet and overall chemicals/ toxins exposure. The other half has to do with your current state of life...where you are, what your o ptions are, whats around you, everything...mentally, and your present state and place and status and everything...basically its very simple, theres either cortisol or more of a loving state, and that's determined by your present circumstance and surroundings and whats on your mind, your whole memory's also to an extent. Even if youre great yourself, if your surrounded by deemed constricting or judging or threatening people, your body will elevate cortisol over feeling comfortable, loving environment. Cortisol states I think are what imprint tensions in the physiology and mental stress patterns, probably what leads to serotonin also. Cortisol messes with all positive hormones, lowers dopamine but increases adrenaline...which is a less receptive battle ready state, causes sodium water retention, limits or halts protein synthesis, blunts immune system, pretty much nearly halts peristaltis and gastric secretion or if its a minor stress it still greatly limits it...think tail between legs of an animal, whole thing gets clenched, breath is less deep and either choked off or panting....all of these things via environment and current state, not diet depending. Theres really that, and then diet, and th ose 2 determine health. So really as a society if everyone keeps doing the dog eat dog pollution fake business thing, its continuously, ruining the health and potential of all the people. Cortisol also lowers memory formation and sensual awareness, and takes away any creative or higher thoughts and dreams and imaginion and desire to have fun and love...people under high cortisol states, from saying living in a threatening family or area, basically are in a losing position, and you cant fake or talk your mind out of feeling stressed, literally you have to get out of the situation. Diet is for sure half the thing, but its just that. Ive been in various situations horrible and good, and with a similar and always monitored diet at least in the past few years. You'd be surprised at how much that matters, cortisol clamping digestion, heart flow, receptivity to fun and good, ruins health or at best stagnates it, even with a perfect diet...and if you're living in a free place, with friends, job that you like or isn't that bad, and all that...you pretty much have consistent and easy GI even when eating not optimal foods, as long as its still reasonable of course. Corstisol adrenaline state causes major sodium retention, so you'll even look and feel pressure and pain and it might look like fat but its really sodium retention and water...happy non stressed open people probably have kidney and GI function 2-3x as efficient as someone under even minor prolonged stress