The serotonin virgin vs. The dopamine Chad (2/2)

I’d like to not talk about hormones, it’s boring. But first we got to fix the hormones.

Serotonin is rarely, if ever, elevated on its own but in conjunction with estrogen, cortisol, histamine, prolactin etc. (you want none of these elevated).

You’d think that serotonin might be a mechanism to protect against these stress hormones but serotonin actually inhibits both Testosterone synthesis, dopamine release and increases estrogen receptors — which then further increases serotonin 💀

Here’s things that helped me lower serotonin:
1. Lift
2. Stop stressing about the world. Who cares what NPC’s do.
3. Nourish yourself with good foods
4. Cleanse yourself of toxins
5. Lowering body-fat can help lower estrogen and serotonin
6. Disciplined mindset; let winning become the reward
7. Stop consuming NPC media
8. Fix sleep

There are many things people do that unfortunately increase serotonin, like supplementing tryptophan.
For 60 other ways to decrease serotonin check out Hans Amoto’s amazing list.

➤ Ray Peat index

𝚲𝐑𝐂𝚨𝐍𝐄 𝐕𝐈𝐓𝚨𝐋𝐈𝐓𝐘 🟦