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It also increases serotonin.
"Exercise increases serotonin levels in the rat brain".
Excitedly leafing through the literature on LSD, I learned that the hallucinogen not only increases serotonin levels in the brain, it also has a special affinity for many of the same neuroreceptors.
Our M.I.T. research showed decades ago that carbohydrate intake increases serotonin and thus satiety, making dieter and nondieter alike less hungry for the subsequent meal.
That psychiatrist had added a low dose antidepressant and a sleeping pill to the patient's already complex medical regimen, which already included a high dose of an antidepressant medication as well as a heartburn medication that also increases serotonin levels.
For example, just because an S.S.R.I. antidepressant increases serotonin in the brain and improves mood, that does not mean that serotonin deficiency is the cause of the disease; many depressed patients get better with medications that have no effect on serotonin.
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Prozac alleviates depression by increasing serotonin levels.
SSRIs increase serotonin and curb dopamine.
If low serotonin levels were really responsible for depression, then increasing serotonin should have worked on more than 60% of patients.
Antidepressants may increase serotonin in your brain, but the alleviation of depression may be due to the long-term effects of the drugs on neurogenesis.
In those experiments, rats taught to feel helpless and anxious (by being exposed to a laboratory stressor) showed increased serotonin activity in their brains.
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