Channel: Christopher Walker

Category: Education

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Description: Listen to the full podcast about Serotonin's Hidden Myths here - youtu.be/Ovbb9SL9A-c In this video, Christopher Walker and Jayton Miller talk about a few supplement recommendations and dietary habits to naturally lower your serotonin levels. Theanine has been shown to lower serotonin levels in the body. Theanine is included in UMZU’s Miracle Morning supplement, which is great for focus in the morning. Vitamin B3 (Niacinamide) is great as well. Vitamin B6 helps a lot for with lowering serotonin. B vitamins are extremely important. Activated charcoal can be antibacterial, so you can get rid of some of that endotoxin in the gut and lower serotonin levels. Supplements to avoid are tryptophan, 5-HTP, melatonin, potentially also something like St John's Wort. St John’s Wort was very popular decades ago when people were using it for anxiety and depression. It's been shown to increase serotonin levels so I would avoid it. You could try to provide yourself with a more favorable amino acid balance from things that aren't muscle meats. We typically tend to eat a lot of muscle meats in our culturally normal diets such as chicken breasts and ground beef, which ruminants typically don't have as much tryptophan in them. Poultry has higher amount but I've seen that only about 10% of dietary tryptophan actually converted into anything in the body and into serotonin. Unless you're just only eating chicken all the time, I wouldn't really worry about that. An interesting tidbit is that one of the reasons that turkey makes you tired after you eat it is because of the tryptophan content in the turkey. It increases serotonin. A lot of these animals that go into hibernation, their serotonin levels shoot up and their metabolic rate goes down. The reason that the metabolic rate goes down is because if it stayed high, they'd burn through all of their energy storage very quickly and starve to death during their hibernated state. That's why they start hoarding food so early. In the summer, they'll be hoarding all this food and their stress starts to increase through the fall and the winter as it gets colder and there's less food available. So the stress hormones are super, super high. It's very fascinating because bears will come out of hibernation as full blown type 2 diabetics and then they just eat a shit load of honey to pull themselves out of that diabetic state and that's the exact opposite of what most people think is going on. Because they haven't been eating any sugar, they've been in a high serotonin state essentially in high stress hormone state. In terms of foods I would also say like we mentioned earlier, avoiding PUFA, that's going to convert more tryptophan into serotonin in the body. As well as any kind of phytoestrogen typically like soy. In terms of food to eat, I would say good endotoxin fighting foods like a good raw carrot every single day. Some raw or cooked bamboo shoots, some well cooked mushrooms, things like that are going to be very beneficial. For the most part, just sticking straight up to Thermo diet guidelines will help you out. If you're super high in serotonin in terms of fruits, you probably want to avoid eating a lot of bananas, kiwis, and pineapple. If you're not high in serotonin, I wouldn’t really worry about it unless you're doing something crazy like eating 30 bananas in a day. Just be cognizant that those three fruits tend to elicit a serotonergic reaction in high quantities. Eating one banana is not going to do anything to you but if you're already super sensitive to having high serotonin and you are working to lower it, you don't need to eat those fruits. You can choose other ones. I would also focus on things like bone broth, getting collagen, getting a more favorable amino acid profile because that'll help balance out stuff. Collagen has basically no tryptophan in it. It's very high in protective amino acids that are going to help to positively influence your protective hormones in the body and recovery to get sleep. If you're under 25, I wouldn't go over a third of your protein intake coming solely from collagen and gelatin though because you do need that complete amino acid profile in order to allow for tissue creation and things like that whenever you're still young. So make sure sure you’re still getting the majority of your protein intake from food such as grass-fed ground beef.