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How
Does Your Brain Chemically Generate the Feeling of Happiness?
In your brain there are ten billion neurons (brain cells).
Between each and every one of these are neurotransmitters.
These transmitters transmit thought from one cell to
the next. They allow your brain cells to "talk
to each other." The most fascinating thing about
neurotransmitters is that they control the mood your
thought is transmitted in. Some transmit thought in
a positive, happy or euphoric feeling; some transmit
thought in a relaxed calm and quiet mood. Others with
an intense, desperate motivation used for fight or flight.
Moods
Change
The types of neurotransmitters change regularly between
cells in your brain to meet the needs of your current
circumstances. At night, to induce sleep the brain needs
to raise its levels of certain transmitters that transmit
thought in a calming, quieting and relaxing way for
you to sleep well. In the morning it must lower its
levels of these transmitters and raise excitatory transmitter
levels. During exercise it increases levels of euphoria
inducing transmitters. When in pain inhibitory transmitters
are used to restrict transmission of pain.
Neurotransmitter
Deficiencies:
People with depleted supplies of neurotransmitters will
not have enough "feel good" transmitters to
feel happy, upbeat, motivated or on track. They will
feel depressed and unmotivated. They may be easily agitated
or angered. They may feel more psychological and physical
pain. They may experience cravings for food, drugs or
alcohol and may also experience mild to severe sleep
problems.
In Children, when supplies of desired transmitters are
low it is a major cause of excitable, uncontrollable
behaviour, and an inability to focus or pay attention.
Extremely low levels of some neurotransmitters create
the potential for violent behaviour.
Main
Causes of Neurotransmitter Deficiencies:
Stress: Any type of stress, such as lack of sleep, everyday
mental and emotional battles or poor health, will deplete
your "feel good" transmitters. This results
in a reduction of transmitters you need for sleep and
also reduces inhibitory transmitters that block both
psychological and physical pain.
Diet: The Specific Amino acids required by our brains
to manufacture neurotransmitters are found in food,
but are very unstable and break down with any storage,
packaging, processing or cooking. Needless to say they
are not found in sufficient amounts in the standard
diet.
Substance Abuse: The brain can artificially synthesize
"feel good" transmitters from alcohol and
some illegal drugs. However alcohol and drugs in turn
interfere with the brains ability to restore supplies
of neurotransmitters, creating more deficiency and a
growing need for the substance, which may lead to abuse.
The
Neurotransmitter Amino Acid Link
Neurotransmitters
are manufactured inside neurons (brain cells), and then
used as needed. Neurons use specific key amino acids
as precursors, or building blocks for neurotransmitters.
The two key amino acids are Phenylalamine and Glutamine.
The neurons need a daily supply of these two amino acids
to be able to make your "feel good", "feel
calm", and "be motivated" transmitters.
Phenylalanine is an essential amino acid that your body
cannot make from other nutrients. It must be supplied
by an outside source. Therefore if your not getting
it in your diet, your brain is no getting what it needs
to make the transmitters that cause you to feel happy,
loving and motivated. Glutamine is a conditionally essential
amino acid. It is used to make neurotransmitters which
keep you feeling calm, focused and in control, but during
periods of stress the body cannot make its own supply
of glutamine and needs an outside source, diet or otherwise.
There
are three main challenges in providing the brain with
a daily supply of these key amino acids.
DIET-Experts in the field of brain nutrition all agree
that it is virtually impossible to get from our North
American diet the necessary supply of the specific amino
acids to create enough neurotransmitters to keep us
feeling balanced and happy.
BLOOD
BRAIN BARRIER (BBB)- The BBB is a membrane or sack that
completely surrounds the brain and filters all the blood
as it enters the brain. Our brain has difficulty acquiring
the high levels of the specific amino acids it needs
to manufacture "feel good" neurotransmitters
because other nutrients compete with them for entry
through this blood brain barrier.
SYNERGISM-
it has been discovered that the two key amino acids
the brain needs for a person to feel happy, Phenylalanine
and Glutamine, need to be in formulation with trace
amounts of other specific nutrients to readily pass
through the blood brain barrier. When protein or other
amino acids are present along with these two key amino
acids it becomes difficult for them to get through the
blood brain barrier. Supplements containing amino acids
and other vitamins and minerals will not deliver the
required effect unless the formula is specifically formulated
with this in mind. With such a synergistic formula the
neurons will more readily use these amino acids to make
the desired "feel good" neurotransmitters.
Symptoms
of low imbalanced levels of neurotransmitters:
Felling
/ Emotions
Loss
of interest or Apathy, anxiety, Fear, Nervousness, Agitation,
Peevishness, Irritability, Anger, Excitability, Uncontrolled
behaviour
Physical
Signs
Stress
related illness, Premature aging, Fatigue, Sleep disorders,
Eating disorders, Craving for alcohol, Mysterious aches
and pains, Memory loss, Difficulty concentrating Altered
sexual drive.
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Or
Call
Algernon Williams at the Neighbourhood Wellness Clinic11
416 535 7499
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