How Foods and Nutrients Control Our Moods
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How Foods and Nutrients Control Our Moods
GABA inhibits the brain’s overall level of excitation, and you’re probably already familiar with how it feels to modulate it. Anti-anxiety drugs enhance the effect of GABA, as does alcohol, and both simultaneously inhibit glutamate.
Paul Grewal • Genius Foods: Become Smarter, Happier, and More Productive While Protecting Your Brain for Life (Genius Living Book 1)
The RAPHE releases seratonin in different places in the brain. It biases us to stay in the heat and now and think about what we have. Dopamine makes us think about thinks we don’t have. Dopamine and seratonin should be in balance.
Andrew Huberman • How to Increase Motivation & Drive | Huberman Lab Podcast #12
Clusters of neurons in the brainstem also come into play when certain conditions seem to require a rapid mobilization of energy distribution throughout the body and brain. This so-called fight-flight-freeze array of responses is responsible for our survival at times of danger.
Daniel J. Siegel • Mindsight: The New Science of Personal Transformation
The Mind at Work: Lisa Feldman Barrett on the metabolism of emotion
Anthony Wing Kosnerblog.dropbox.com