Tag: 5-HT
A shift from oxidative toward anaerobic metabolism increases nitric oxide (NO) and lactate and drives migraines
Ray mentioned the topic of migraines many times in his articles. He implicated estrogen, serotonin, NO and…
Estrogen and serotonin (5-HT) increase sensitivity to toxic stimuli, drive GI pain and irritable bowel syndrome (IBS)
There has been a recent push by mainstream medicine and Big Pharma to legitimize estrogenic HRT again,…
Serotonin (5-HT) may drive brain/liver/pancreatic and many other cancers, at the genomic level
Hardly the “happiness hormone”, right? I am posting this just as a placeholder since the article is…
Elevated extracellular serotonin (5-HT), not dopamine, drives compulsive sexual behavior (CSBD)
Yet another study showing that mainstream medicine’s claims about the origins of a mental health condition are…
Low-carb diet and chronic (even mild) stress sufficient to cause heart disease (CVD) and depression
I first tried low-carbing, circa 2008, and quickly realized just how detrimental it is to health, especially…
PUFA/MUFA trigger serotonin release, platelet aggregation independently of downstream metabolites; SFA do not
One of the sneaky arguments that mainstream makes in favor of PUFA is that while they have…
Dopamine agonists may treat “untreatable” depression, by lowering serotonin
The list of studies undermining the “serotonin hypothesis” in depression keeps growing. Actually, those studies do not…
High serotonin (5-HT), not low dopamine (DA) per se, as the main driver of Parkinson Disease (PD)
I have several posts on my blog of studies demonstrating that 5-HT antagonists have demonstrated pr-eclinical activity…
Anti-depressant drugs (SSRI) cause heart defects/disease by inhibiting oxidative metabolism
I am amazed by the number of already published studies that openly admit that SSRI drugs have…
Blocking serotonin (5-HT) may treat alcoholism
After decades of animal research implicating the serotonin system in the development of all sorts of “addictions”,…