What You Need To Know About Aging and Neurotransmitters

Neurotransmitters are the chemical messenger molecules that your body uses to communicate ideas, feelings, awareness, satisfaction, pleasure and satiety.

Common neurotransmitters that you've probably heard of include: serotonin, epinephrine, norepinephrine, dopamine, histamine and many others.

What Causes Neurotransmitters To Go Out Of Balance?

1) Stress depletes neurotransmitters2) Genetics3) Poor diet, especially not enough high quality protein, because virtually every neurotransmitter is derived from amino acids.4) Certain medications: ironically, patients who are on SSRI's to elevate their serotonin levels, will actually become depleted of serotonin over time. No one should be on an SSRI without taking additional tryptophan or 5-HTP. I will explain why later.

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