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This is the stuff I love! I love to learn about how our amazing bodies work and why. So I want to tell you about neurotransmitters. When you are done reading this YOU are going to LOVE your neurotransmitters! These little guys are messengers that run around in your brain. They can affect mood, appetite, heart rate, sleep, anxiety, aggression, fear and a whole lotta other things. So it's really important to keep these guys in line and doing the job they are suppose to do right? Right! I don't know about you but I love to have a good mood, sleep well, have a clear head and feel tip top. But what can make these guys..... these neurotransmitters get out of line, is directly related to your eating habits and your lifestyle. That's right, what you eat and how you act and think!
You have two neurotransmitters called Dopamine and Norepinephrine (actually you have more than that but I don't want to keep you reading all day). I'm just going to call them Dopey and Mopey just to keep it simple. So these two transmitters directly affect self-esteem. If you feel emotionally overwhelmed at times you could have low Dopey and Mopey. If you are tearful and reactive, depressed and/hopeless you could be low. If you feel "done to" by others (that was me!) you could be low. Low tolerance to pain or crave sugar, yep you got it... Low Dopey and Mopey! Isn't that kinda cool to learn? Doesn't that kind of make you feel like "hey I feel this way for a reason and I can change that!" YES you can!!!!  when you have optimal levels of Dopey and Mopey you have a higher self-esteem, feel compassionate, hopeful, optimistic, even euphoric. You take personal responsibility, and have a "take it or leave it" attitude. You have a high tolerance for pain. Ahhh to feel this way is so much better than feeling like PooP!
Then you have a neurotransmitter that is called Serotonin. I will call him by his rightful name Serotonin because he affects my MOOD. Again controlled by eating and lifestyle. You might know these people that have low levels (and if you new me a year ago, ding ding ding!) People with low levels tend to "fly off the handle, they are really reactive, have a lot of brain chatter, Impulsive, Depressed, Crave sweets and crave mainly carbohydrates (and you know what these are if you read my last blog). So why would  this messenger make us crave sweets? Well when you eat a man-made carbohydrate or take stimulants like caffeine you cause a sharp rise in blood sugar. When you do that you create excessive insulin this results in a quick rush of serotonin..... stay with me here........when that happens it encourages the addiction pattern to occur. Then that Mr. Serotonin suddenly drops off leaving you feel like crud!! But here is the plus side: when you have optimal levels you feel hopeful and optimistic, your able to concentrate, you can think things through, your hungry for a variety of different foods and you can actually eat dessert without an emotional charge.
So why should you care about this? Because you need to know that it's completely fixable! Without medication! How do you change it? By Diet! I am a true testament of how changing the way you eat can change how you feel, how you react and how you handle the daily stresses. And I must say... It feels so good to be in the "Optimal" levels!!!!

Want to know more? Want to know how to easy it is to fix your little messengers? Then come to the class I am hosting on January 4th at 6:30. Class given by my trainer and nutrition mentor Jay Altman Location in Burnsville! Click  "HERE"and sign up, cost is only 20.00 for a night of LIFE CHANGING information!!
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