YOU ARE WHAT YOU EAT

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“Reserpine is an ancient tranquilizer, derived from a plant used in India for centuries. It has a powerful tranquilizing action, has been used to treat hypertension, and was found to be an antidepressant (Davies and Shepherd, 1955). It lowers the concentration of serotonin in the brain and other tissues. Isoniazid, an antidepressant that came into use in the 1950s, is effective, but it probably has no effect on serotonin. When those drugs were popular, serotonin wasn’t recognized as a “neurotransmitter.” It wasn’t until the 1960s that our present set of doctrines regarding serotonin’s effects on mood and behavior came into being.

Serotonin research is relatively new, but it rivals estrogen research for the level of incompetence and apparent fraudulent intent that can be found in professional publications.“ -Ray Peat

 

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Serotonin, depression, and aggression - The problem of brain energy.

Serotonin research is relatively new, but it rivals estrogen research for the level of incompetence and apparent fraudulent intent that can be found in professional publications. This is partly because of the involvement of the drug industry, but the U.S. government also played a role in setting...

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“The war on drugs has always had its ulterior motives,including justifying domestic and foreign interventions in issues that have nothing to do with drugs. And in the case of the serotonin/antiserotonin mythology, this “war” has been rewarding to the drug industry--Lilly makes over $2 billion annually on Prozac. Each suicide caused by Prozac would appear to be balanced by several hundred thousand dollars earned by the corporation. If the war on drugs were serious, this would be a good place to start. And in weighing what corporate punishments might be appropriate, this corporation’s financial support for universal capital punishment should be taken into account.” -Ray Peat

 

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“Heart failure, hypertension, muscle hyperalgesia (Babenko, et al., 2000), some panic reactions, and other maladaptive biological events associated with problems of energy metabolism, are promoted by excessive serotonin.” -Ray Peat

 

[Blossom]

If you are what you eat I suppose I’m mostly a lamb.

 

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If you are what you eat I suppose I’m mostly a lamb.

Gentle and sweet!

 

[Blossom]

Gentle and sweet!

:)

 

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View: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=_Ju6Q8Azcmg

 

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White rice causing depression and anhedonia

I wanted to confirm that this was true, today I avoided white rice until the evening, I only ate meat, sweet potatoes and fruit earlier. I started feeling way better today, the previous days I was feeling anhedonic and depressed every day and today I had lots of motivation. When I ate white rice...

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“Inflammation leads to excessive uptake of calcium by cells, and is a factor in obesity, depression, and the degenerative diseases.”
-Ray Peat

 

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“Simply eating an adequate amount of calcium and magnesium can alleviate many problems related to stress and aging that are considered serious, such as heart arrhythmia, pancreatitis, and tissue calcification. The antiinflammatory, anti-allergy actions of calcium and magnesium are well established, and there is clear evidence that obesity and various emotional disturbances can result from their deficiency.” -Ray Peat

 

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“When stress suppresses thyroid activity, increased cholesterol probably compensates to some extent by permitting more progesterone to be synthesized.” -Ray Peat

 

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“However, egg yolks contain more nutrients than egg whites and can help men struggling with low testosterone levels.”

“Plus, pomegranates can also increase testosterone levels by 24% when you eat them consistently for two weeks, according to one study.”

11 Testosterone-Boosting Foods

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[VitoScaletta]

You are what you eat... And you know what it is

View: https://youtu.be/ex_fhddymdQ

 

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You are what you eat... And you know what it is

View: https://youtu.be/ex_fhddymdQ

Shewf I was getting nervous in that song thinking something was gonna startle me somewhere! So what is it? What was he eating? I don’t know what it is!

 

[VitoScaletta]

Shewf I was getting nervous in that song thinking something was gonna startle me somewhere! So what is it? What was he eating? I don’t know what it is!

Other people!
Good old man-eating... Although not that kind of man-eating

You are what you eat afterall......

 

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Other people!
Good old man-eating... Although not that kind of man-eating

You are what you eat afterall......

Ohhhh! Well thanks for clarifying that. I came up with several interpretations of that song since last night.

 

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“A deficiency of progesterone and other neurosteroids (the steroids synthesized by the nerves themselves) causes depression of mood and impaired learning ability, among other neurological changes. As was the case with cancer, the pharmaceutical industry continues to deny that their anticholesterol drugs cause suicide, depression, and dementia, but there is a large amount of evidence from human as well as animal studies showing that mood and intelligence are depressed by lowering cholesterol. Simply injecting cholesterol into animals can improve their learning ability. In the Framingham heart study of 1894 people extending over a period of about 20 years, people with cholesterol naturally in the "desirable" range, below 200 mg.%, scored lower on "verbal fluency, attention/concentration, abstract reasoning, and a composite score measuring multiple cognitive domains" than those with higher cholesterol (Elias, et al., 2005).”
-Ray Peat

 

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“Our bodies produce estrogen in a great variety of tissues, not just in the ovaries. Fat cells are a major source of it.” -Ray Peat

 

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“The belief that the PUFA are essential nutrients has influenced the way cellular excitability thresholds are being interpreted. Anxiety and panic may be interpreted as alertness, calmness may be interpreted as stupidity.” -Ray Peat