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194. Animal-based vs. Ray Peat diet, a conversation with Georgi Dinkov

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What Causes Excess Serotonin in Humans?

The way that mainstream medicine and psychiatry treats depression is by making people blunted. So what raises serotonin? We talked about how 5HT2C might raise cortisol. And we talked about cortisol increasing serotonin by changing its synthesis. What causes excess serotonin physiologically? Well, if it's mostly made in the gut, some kind of a gut irritation, which most of you must tends to be endotoxin,. Or you're eating something that's physically irritating to be intestine.

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