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Originally Posted by gregorio
Your comment is misleading.
It's not that "The latest theory is that elevated levels of serotonin are associated with depression"... this has been known for decades. It's just that, finally, more and more folks are waking up to the real truth.
The notion that serotonin is the happy chemical is a false and fraudulent theory launched and marketed by corporate medicine.
A sizable volume of sound research studies demonstrated that increasing serotonin and tryptophan either with drugs or supplements is linked to brain dysfunction, stress hormone release, cognitive deficits, inflammation, impaired blood circulation in the brain, hypertension, cancer, and other less than "happy" effects -
http://www.supplements-and-health.co...e-effects.html
The "serotonin-happiness" mantra, just like the mechanistic simplistic "chemical imbalance" idea, are almost entirely all-too convenient inventions of the medical-pharma business, which allowed them to sell their highly profitable antidepressant drugs, such as SSRIs, while causing massive human destruction.