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let’s talk about the real reason why

your serotonin is low

and you may be depressed or have anxiety

okay now

most people know that serotonin is

involved with their mood

when you look this up in any medical

physiology book

they don’t know exactly for sure what it

does but they do know it’s related to

someone’s mood changes so if there’s a

problem with serotonin okay it can

really affect your mood behaviors and a

lot of other things okay

there are

also people who take ssris okay that

stands for selective serotonin reuptake

inhibitors

basically they’re medications

that allow you

to not absorb

serotonin and allow for more serotonin

to be used by your body okay because

normally you have these

uptake or

kind of receptors that absorb serotonin

once it’s being released so it

inactivates serotonin if you inhibit

that you’re going to have more serotonin

available these are medications and they

have side effects and let me just give

you my disclaimer right now

anything that i say check with your

doctor first before implementing okay

all this information is based on my

opinion and some of the studies down

below but there are some really bad side

effects with ssris number one suicide

thoughts and suicide actions

number two manic episodes you might have

excessive energy well that’s actually

not too bad compared to the other side

effects but you also might have

excessive happiness which

again i don’t know why someone would

have a problem with that but the main

side effect

is this and i’m going to pull this up

close to a hundred percent of people who

take antidepressants experience some

form of sexual side effects there’s this

condition called post ssri sexual

dysfunction

and this is a really terrible thing

because it can cause genital numbness

almost to the effect that it feels like

someone is using an anesthetic or some

type of

nerve

deadening agent so basically your

genitals have no more feeling people

also experience zero libido

they feel kind of

wooden and a lack of emotion some people

don’t experience the emotion of love

and others just get no pleasure from

erections or orgasms or

anything involved with the sexual act

not to mention erectile dysfunction the

problem is

that this could last for

decades okay now there’s this other

thing that i found when i was looking at

this it’s called discontinuation

syndrome now what is that

i mean this is basically just another

it’s a nice name for withdrawals from

this poison i’m sorry medication now i

read an article on this which is

basically just disgusting i just have to

mention something because they were

taking these serious withdrawal symptoms

and turning into something that is you

know just normal it says discontinuation

and change are

a part of life

we all start and stop

various activities job changes

relationship changes

and so forth and many medical treatments

might have some side effects

as we navigate through our depression

and anxiety navigate through our

depression and anxiety

is that what people are trying to do no

they’re trying to get rid of

depression and anxiety they just made

with serious withdrawal symptoms which

by the way is just terrible because

coming off these medications can

actually exaggerate these symptoms and

they could last for

decades

so that being said

why are people so deficient in serotonin

that’s what i want to talk about right

now

95

plus percent of all the serotonin in

your body

is not actually made by your body it’s

made by your good bacteria

in your gut so we are dependent on our

good bacteria for serotonin and a lot of

other things like our immune system

only a very tiny

percent of all the serotonin made in the

body is made by your brain okay

that’s point zero zero zero zero zero

one that’s one one millionth of all the

serotonin is made by your brain so you

could pretty much

look at that as virtually zero right the

majority of serotonin is made by

not our own bodies but

bacteria

so if anything goes wrong with our

bacteria

serotonin can suffer greatly now i want

to introduce you to this

this word here called glyphosate okay

what is glyphosate that is a very

specific herbicide it’s one of the most

common

herbicides weed killers that is just all

over the world right now almost every

chemical company makes it because the

patent ran out

and i want to just explain a little bit

about this okay

in 1960

it was discovered that this chemical

could be used as a descaling agent what

does that mean

basically it’s a chemical that can bind

with a metal okay or a mineral like

manganese for example or zinc

so that was in 1960 and in 1969 they

found that it kills plants and then 1996

they came out with something called

roundup ready okay

and that’s a herbicide that kills weeds

if you look up glyphosate roundup ready

you’re going to see

a lot of mixed reviews

you’re going to see positives you’re

going to see negatives

and it’s going to be very confusing

there’s huge pr campaigns

to make it appear to be safe

and

basically what they say is that it’s

safe because

it doesn’t affect humans okay at least

how it affects plants and animals

because it blocks this very specific

pathway called the

shikimate pathway now this pathway

really involves enzymes enzymes are

proteins enzymes always have a metal or

mineral

as their base okay

and this sigma pathway has

manganese so glyphosate basically works

by binding with

manganese making this enzyme not work

anymore in bacteria in plants well guess

what’s interesting about this

this specific enzyme okay makes

three

actually three to four but it’s three

main

amino acids

tyrosine

phenylalanine

and

tryptophan okay tryptophan what is

tryptophan

and well you know maybe you’ve heard of

tryptophan as a supplement people take

it for um

for sleep

and mood

and to build up their serotonin because

serotonin comes from tryptophan you

can’t make serotonin without

tryptophan

if you

block the production of tryptophan and

by the way tryptophan is an essential

amino acid that means that our body

can’t make it

and we must get it from another source

so i found some fascinating research

relating to this chemical

and lowered tryptophan and lowered

serotonin amounts so even though our

bodies don’t have this pathway

our microbiome is a huge part of our

health

and our immune system and our ability to

make neurotransmitters and you really

need to consider the microbiome as

another organ you know um a bushel of

corn

used to weigh

about 56 pounds okay in the past

now if you weigh a bushel of corn it’s

54 pounds

so we’re missing two pounds where is

that going well since the great majority

of corn is gmo

that means that it’s been exposed to

glyphosate and this enzyme has been

deactivated because it’s been bound with

manganese so basically this is two

pounds less because we’re missing

two pounds of this metal or mineral

manganese which weighs about two pounds

per bushel so i believe this herbicide

is really behind

a problem with serotonin worldwide now

let’s talk about what we can do about it

is there a strategy

this is what i’m going to recommend as a

strategy

immediately start eating organic foods

now does that mean that all organic

foods don’t have traces of glyphosate no

but it does mean that it has less

glyphosate

and i don’t want to go too far down into

that rabbit hole but non-gmo

does have less but

if you’re looking at foods that have

organic versus non-gmo organic has less

glyphosate

the other thing i’m going to highly

recommend is if you’re going to get

you know

meats

grass-fed grass finished because

these animals

consume grains that have been exposed to

glyphosates so if you can get actually

grass-fed grass-finished meats

that’s going to help you not be exposed

to that herbicide as much and of course

you know also eggs you know get organic

pasture-raised eggs number two avoid the

most common foods that are heavily

sprayed with this glyphosate soy

corn wheat

and sugar

both beet sugar which is the majority in

the u.s

and also

sugar cane and of course the seed oils

canola cotton seed are heavily sprayed

not to mention the

soy oil the third thing

probiotic foods i’m not talking about

just taking a probiotic i’m talking

about fermented foods

sauerkraut kimchi

fermented vegetables kefir very

important because

if you have

sufficient microorganisms okay

you can to certain degree counter this

glyphosate effect so even though

virtually everyone has glyphosate in

their bodies it’s all a matter of um

dosage and concentration in certain

amounts

so you want to have a very healthy gut

microbiome to counter

this exposure to living in this

environment number four increase the

amount of vegetables that you eat

because the fiber feeds the microbes

that’s their food and if you have

a lot of different types of vegetables

you have a more diversified

microbiome and that can be very

beneficial to you okay so don’t just

have one vegetable

over and over and over

number five get exposure to the sun not

to the point where you’re burnt but get

regular exposure to the sun not only

will vitamin d help depression and

anxiety and but the infrared from the

sun

can increase

serotonin and melatonin okay i mean

think about in the winter why people get

depressed because they’re the sun we’re

not getting the sun exposure like we do

in the in the summer months

number six exercise exercise can

actually increase the conversion from

tryptophan to serotonin which is a very

good thing and also number seven

of course this is a given keto and

intermittent fasting both of these

actions

not only avoid

these type of cereal foods and grains

but ketones generally help your brain in

sodas intermittent fasting and it can

definitely increase your cognitive

function and your mood right off the bat

and number eight

on a regular basis apple cider vinegar

like a tablespoon in water now why

because

acetic acid bacteria are also greatly

affected by glyphosate which means

you’ll make less acetic acid and acetic

acid

really uh is a major

small chain fatty acid that can affect

your ph in your gut and when the ph is

affected a lot of other problems can

happen so we want enough acetic acid in

our digestive system to keep the ph

correct and taking apple cider vinegar

could be one extra thing that can help

you since we’re on the topic of

depression and anxiety if you haven’t

seen this video related to nutritional

deficiencies

i think you’ll enjoy it check it out