Stress reduces serotonin, probably the most important…

“I can’t work well when I am under stress. It reduces me to normalcy. Stress is my kryptonite. And I usually don’t change in…

— Jarod Kintz

Proactively working to develop mental strength increases your resilience to stress and reduces the toll it takes on you both physically and mentally.

— Amy Morin

“In neuroscience, our textbook showed how the brain scans of people newly in love look a lot like the brain scans of patients with…

— Daria Snadowsky

“Serotonin, the "feel-good" brain chemical that is boosted by Prozac, depends on magnesium for its production and function.”

— Carolyn Dean

What I loved about breast-feeding was that bond of one-on-one time. The serotonin that's released calms you down and connects you to the baby.

— Isla Fisher

“My apologies. Time and isolation do strange things. Of course, the levels of serotonin do not help,” the vampire said. “The what?” Domingo asked.…

— Silvia Moreno-Garcia

“As work continued, an important qualifier emerged. Low serotonin didn’t predict premeditated, instrumental violence. It predicted impulsive aggression, as well as cognitive impulsivity (e.g.,…

— Robert M. Sapolsky

The one thing we do know is that the chemical imbalance theory - the theory that people get depressed when they don't have enough…

— Irving Kirsch

“Starting with a 1979 study, low levels of serotonin in the brain were shown to be associated with elevated levels of human aggression, with…

— Robert M. Sapolsky

Cocoa boosts brain serotonin. Almost every single antidepressant aims at either enhancing serotonin or keeping it in the brain longer. Chocolate or cocoa does…

— Chris Kilham

It's a long way from not having enough serotonin to thinking the world is "stale, flat and unprofitable"; even further to writing a play…

— Susanna Kaysen

“In particular, aerobic exercises, like running and biking, are best at boosting serotonin. Interestingly, if you try to do too much exercise or feel…

— Alex Korb

“the gut contains over 500 million neurons, equivalent in size and complexity to a cat’s brain, and is the source of 90 percent of…

— Jenny Blake

When you're clinically depressed the serotonin in your brain is out of balance and probably always will be out of balance. So I take…

— Terry Bradshaw

“Compare a medieval French peasant to a modern Parisian banker. The peasant lived in an unheated mud hut overlooking the local pigsty, while the…

— Yuval Noah Harari