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let’s talk about how to boost serotonin the happy  hormone what is serotonin and what does it do  

well it’s a hormone a hormone is a communication  that travels through the body and serotonin is  

made by your brain it’s made by your gut and  it contributes to feelings of happiness it  

helps raise your mood it helps make you calm it  decreases cravings for carbs it helps you focus  

and it reduces anxiety now if you’re  deficient in serotonin your mood might be  

suppressed okay you may have depression  you may have anxiety you may be irritable  

you may even have a worse in self-esteem sleeping  problems and even memory loss so what can you do  

to boost your serotonin number one i’ll tryptophan  it’s an amino acid non-toxic it converts  

to serotonin and it can help build up your  serotonin levels now just make sure if you’re  

taking l-tryptophan make sure you take it on  an empty stomach now tryptophan also helps you  

with sleep so i would recommend taking it right  before you go to bed on an empty stomach because  

if you take it with protein the other protein will  compete with the tryptophan and it won’t go in so  

it’ll be kind of like a waste of taking tryptophan  number two exercise exercise helps the conversion  

going from tryptophan to serotonin okay  number three sun and vitamin d vitamin d  

not only is necessary for making serotonin but  also to help convert tryptophan to serotonin and  

this is probably why vitamin d has anti-depressive  properties all right number four probiotics well  

your gut makes serotonin a lot of it and  there’s a huge relationship between what’s  

going on in your gut and what’s going on in your  head but probiotics can help increase tryptophan  

especially like kimchi sauerkraut these  are fermented vegetables and maybe even  

kefir or other probiotic type supplements  all right number five massage also increases  

serotonin and decreases cortisol and just so you  know anything that raises cortisol will inhibit  

serotonin so you have to keep your stress as  low as you can all right number six surprise  

fasting fasting significantly increases serotonin  this is probably why people that do fasting are no  

longer depressed all right thanks for watching hey  before you go if you’re benefiting from any of my  

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