Greg says
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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.
'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.