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serotonin and food

Serotonin is the hormone responsible for making you feel happy and for your mood regulation, having low serotonin levels may make you feel bad or even depressed.

Luckily there are some natural ways to that can help you increase your serotonin levels and as you may have already guessed, one of these ways is eating.

foods that make serotonin levels go higher

The following are types of foods that can make your serotonin levels go higher and so in turn helps in elevating your mood.

• sweets and chocolate: don’t wonder, sweets and chocolate contain sugars that help to make your body increase the serotonin levels. That’s why you may find yourself feeling better after eating a chocolate
• proteins: proteins don’t directly increase serotonin level but what happens is that the intake of proteins provides the body with amino acids like tryptophan which is then synthesised to form serotonin. So protein provides the raw material for serotonin formation.
• carbohydrates: carbohydrates can help in increasing your serotonin levels, carbohydrates stimulates your body to secrete insulin which takes out all of the other amino acids except trytophan which is then converted to serotonin. the advantage of carbohydrates on normal sugars is that its effect lasts longer
• unfortunately nicotine: that’s why you may feel bad during periods of giving up smoking

Mood lifting and weight gain

Some people gain weight only because they always seek food for lifting their moods. These people usually put on weight for reasons that are not related to food itself but rather to their own emotional state. In my book The ultimate guide to weight loss i explained how depression, stress and anxiety can be the reason that someone is over eating. Don't fall in this trap and don't keep eating just to lift your mood or to make yourself feel better, instead, find the real reasons that are making you feel bad and deal with them.

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