How Foods and Nutrients Control Our Moods

The microbiome can be steered through the ingestion of certain foods.

It’s highly individual to genes, epigenetics and environment on what diet your body can thrive.

Certain artificial sweeteners disrupt the microbiome and favor the environment for unfavorable

The blood brain barrier around the brain makes sure that some molecules cannot enter the brain to avoid damage to brain tissues, which have very low turnover.

Better living through chemistry still requires better living.

You always have to consider crashes after strong intakes. Play with dosages and timing.

There are no great tools to measure the levels of neuro-modulators outside a clinical setting.

Seratonin makes us feel comfortable and in bliss with things. A lot of seratonin is in our gut, but not the kind leading to the comfortable feeling (they are in the brain). Starchy-carbs contain the amino acids that are the building blocks for and there increase the levels of seratonin. It blunts the appetite. It makes us feel relaxed and calm.

Neuromodulators bias which circuits are active and which are not.