What depletes mood-enhancing brain chemicals?
There are several common problems that can result in depletion of brain chemicals. Genetics can play a part. There are certain genes that program our brains to produce mood-enhancing chemicals, but some of us inherited genes that undersupply the chemicals. Parents who have low supplies of naturally stimulating and sedating brain chemicals often produce depressed or anxious children who use food, alcohol, or drugs as substitutes for the brain chemicals they desperately need. Prolonged stress uses up the precious stores of brain chemicals that naturally calm your nerves. Over time, your brain can’t keep up with the demand, which is why you start to “help” your brain by eating foods that have drug-like effects on it. Regular use of refined sugars and flours (which exhibit drug-like properties), and regular use of alcohol or drugs not only affect your blood glucose levels, thereby depriving your brain of the only fuel it can burn; but they also inhibit the production of any of your brain’s
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