You’re probably wondering “what’s the deal with high dopamine AND histamine?” Well, let’s just say dopamine and histamine actually have a love-hate relationship going on. Let me explain… let’s imagine that dopamine is a chameleon and histamine is a fly.The chameleon is a super chill kinda guy, always in a good mood, carefully specs things … Read more
Dopamine makes you addicted to wanting to improve yourself, eat healthy, be active, wanting to explore and stay lean. Right? Yes, but is that what the media portrays? No! We’re being told dopamine promotes addiction to drugs, food, bad behavior, etc. But that’s incorrect. It’s a dysregulation of the dopamine system that leads to overeating … Read more
Dopamine is a very important neurotransmitter synthesized in the brain. It is synthesized from phenylalanine, tyrosine or L-DOPA. Tyrosine is converted into L-DOPA via the enzyme tyrosine hydroxylase (TH), which requires vitamin B6 as a cofactor, and then L-DOPA is converted to dopamine. Once dopamine is released from neurons, free dopamine is pumped out of the … Read more
I want to share with you something you probably never heard before…or heard the opposite of what I’m about to tell you. Dopamine is actually the happy hormone…Boom! Serotonin has always been thought to be the happy hormone, but science is realizing that that is not the case and that serotonin is associated with a … Read more