Tag: serotonin

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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…

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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,…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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Antidepressants (SSRI) can trigger hyponatremia, which causes severe anxiety

Just a few days ago I did a post on how avoiding dietary salt can cause hyponatremia…

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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…

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Sodium restriction may cause anxiety

One of the most pernicious dietary myths imposed by the nutrition and medical industries is that dietary…

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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…

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LSD, banned by the FDA/DEA as mentally damaging, may cure anxiety/depression with even a single dose

Once again, we see that the truth is often 180 degrees from what public health authorities keep…