Tag: serotonin

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High-fat diet ups cortisol/serotonin (5-HT), hinders 5-HT deactivation, causes leaky gut and systemic inflammation

I am sure I will get a lot of hate-mail about this, but frankly this is not…

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Serotonin (5-HT) is both a biomarker and driver of osteoporosis

More than decade ago I was reading one of the article’s on Ray’s website, in which he…

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Serotonin (5-HT) promotes blood vessel thickening, may cause cardiovascular disease (CVD)

Yet another study that exposes the “happiness hormone” 5-HT as anything but. In addition, the study also…

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It’s official – high serotonin (5-HT), not high dopamine (DA), drives schizophrenia

This is perhaps the first human study to directly point the finger at 5-HT as a cause…

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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…