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Serotonin: The Feel Good Chemical

Serotonin is a "feel good" neurotransmitter. It regulates sleep, controls your sensitivity to pain and can bless you with a wonderful feeling of contentment. If you don't have enough, you may experience a variety of symptoms from sleep disturbances to emotional malaise.

Serotonin is manufactured in the body from tryptophan, an amino acid. It is essential for carrying messages between nerve cells. Low levels can lead to depression, decreased sex drive, anxiety,aggressive behaviour, etc. High levels can lead to manic behaviour, periods of excessive activity, and accelerated aging.

Only one among hundreds of neurotransmitters, serotonin could well be the most important. It is intimately connected to melatonin and cortisol and as such regulates emotional well-being. Due to denatured foods and poor eating habits, its deficiency is becoming epidemic as can be seen by the dramatic increase in Prozac use! Carbohydrates have been implicated in creating this deficiency as well as high levels of stress.

Good foods for the building blocks of serotonin are turkey, milk and whey protein powder. That's why we get drowsy after a good Thanksgiving meal of turkey and why mom always suggested a glass of warm milk to help with sleep! Keeping your blood sugar balanced can help prevent serotonin levels from swinging out of control.

As stress is such a major cause of mood swings and depression, it is important that you take time every day to destress! You may choose to listen to classical music, pray, meditate, journal or sit quietly by the ocean, but make sure you create a regular habit of destressing, to recharge and re-energize.

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