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The lack of serotonin is associated with symptoms of depression
Serotonin is a powerful neurotransmitter that is synthesized from tryptophan, contained in food. The lack of serotonin is associated with symptoms of depression, anxiety, anguish and sadness. Foods rich in tryptophan, act as natural antidepressants, leading to increased serotonin without psychoactive drugs.
Scientific studies have demonstrated that increased serotonin is associated with a feeling of well-being, relaxation, increased self esteem and concentration.
Low levels of serotonin are also associated with aggressive states, depression and anxiety and even migraines, because when serotonin levels drop, blood vessels dilate.
Serotonergic function is essentially inhibitory. Influences on sleep and is also related to mood, emotion and depressive states. Affects vascular function as well as the frequency of the heartbeat, regulates the secretion of hormones such as growth. Changes in the level of this substance are associated with mental imbalances such as schizophrenia or autism. It also plays an important role in certain anxiety disorders. Read the rest of this entry »
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Natural Antidepressants
Foods rich in tryptophan to the lack of serotonin.
Serotonin is a powerful neurotransmitter that is synthesized from tryptophan, contained in food. The lack of serotonin is associated with symptoms of depression, anxiety, anguish and sadness.
Foods rich in tryptophan, act as natural antidepressants, leading to increased serotonin without psychoactive drugs. Learn the proper diet to stimulate the production of serotonin.
The lack of serotonin, a neurotransmitter that acts in the brain, causing many disorders, including depression, anxiety, distress, irritability, and ultimately, sadness.
Serotonin is synthesized from the amino acid tryptophan, which must be incorporated into the daily diet since the body does not produce it. Thus, tryptophan-rich foods act as natural antidepressants, without resort to psychiatric drugs. Read the rest of this entry »
What is a Depression?
Depression (from Latin depressus, which means ‘killed’, ‘down’) is a mood disorder that occurs in colloquial terms as a state of depression and unhappiness that can be transient or permanent. The medical term refers to a syndrome or cluster of symptoms that affect mainly the emotional sphere: sadness pathological decay, irritability or mood disorder that can decrease performance at work or limit the normal life activity, regardless that their cause is known or unknown. Although this is the core of symptoms, depression can also be expressed through conditions of the cognitive, volitional or somatic. In most cases, the diagnosis is clinical, but must be differentiated from similar expression boxes, such as anxiety disorders. The person suffering from depression may not experiencing sadness, but loss of interest and inability to enjoy normal play activities, and a little experience motivating and slower over time. Its origin is multifactorial, although it is noted triggers such as stress and feelings (derived from a disappointment in love, contemplation or experience of an accident, murder or tragedy, the bad news disorder, grief, and having gone through an experience near-death). There are other sources, such as inadequate elaboration of mourning (for the death of a loved one) or even the consumption of certain substances (alcohol or other toxic substances) and predisposing factors such as genetics or educational status.
Depression can have important social and personal consequences, from incapacity to suicide. The different schools of psychiatry have proposed various treatments for depression: Biopsychiatry, through a pharmacological approach, endorsed by the success of recent generations of antidepressants (fluoxetine flagged by the “happy pill” of the twentieth century), school through procedures psychoanalytic or cognitive-behavioral therapy, through behavioral and cognitive proposals. Read the rest of this entry »
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