What's most fascinating is that how you experience emotion and how you feel, is dictated by certain neurotransmitters.
The types of transmitters change regularly between cells in your brain to meet the needs of your current circumstance.
At night, to induce sleep, the brain needs to raise its level so certain thoughts are transmitted in a calming, quieting and relaxing way for you to sleep well.
In the morning it must lower its levels of these transmitters and raise excitatory transmitter levels.
During exercise it increases levels of euphoria inducing transmitters.
During times of stress it must raise levels of another transmitter that helps you to remain clam and in control.
When in pain, inhibitory transmitters are used by the brain to restrict the transmission of pain. The more present the less pain you feel!
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Major
Neurotransmitters "Feel Good"
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ENDORPHINS (Opiods):
Mood elevating, enhancing, euphoric. The more present, the happier
you are! Natural pain killers.
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NOREPINEPHRINE:
Excitatory, feel happy, alert, motivated. Anti-depressant, appetite
control, energy, sexual arousal.
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DOPAMINE:
Feelings of bliss and pleasure, euphoric, appetite control,
controlled motor movements, feel focused.
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ACETYLCHOLINE:
Alertness, memory, sexual performance, appetite control, release of
growth hormone.
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PHENYLETHYLMINE
(PEA): Feelings of bliss, involved in feelings of infatuation (high
levels found in chocolate).
Inhibitory
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ENKEPHALINS:
Restrict transmission of pain, reduce craving, reduce depression.
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GABA (Gamma Amino
Butyric Acid): Found throughout central nervous system, anti-stress,
anti-anxiety, anti-panic, anti-pain; Feel calm, maintain control,
focus.
Hormonal
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SEROTONIN:
Promotes and improves sleep, improves self esteem, relieves
depression, diminishes craving, prevents agitated depression and
worrying.
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MELATONIN:
"Rest and recuperation" and "anti-aging"
hormone. Regulates body clock.
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OXYTOCIN:
Stimulated by Dopamine. Promotes sexual arousal, feelings of
emotional attachment, desire to cuddle.
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IT IS CRITICAL that all of the major neurotransmitters be present daily and in sufficient amounts in order for the brain to be chemically balanced. When there are insufficient amounts of one or more of these it upsets the ratio and symptoms are experienced.
NEUROTRANSMITTER
DEFICIENCIES
Depression |||
Lifelessness |||
Moods |||
Irritability
Sleeplessness |||
Anxiety/Panic |||
Brain Fog |||
Stress Damage
Depleted supplies of "feel good"
transmitters means it will be impossible for you to feel happy, upbeat,
motivated or on track. You will feel just the opposite: A decrease in energy and
interest, feelings of worthlessness and a pervasive sense of helplessness to
control the course of your life.
Certain transmitters, when depleted, may
cause you to be easily agitated or angered, experience mild to severe anxiety
and have sleep problems. You may feel more psychological and physical pain.
These can all be symptoms of neurotransmitter insufficiency.
IN CHILDREN, when supplies of desirable
transmitters are too low, it is a major cause of excitable, uncontrollable
behavior, and an inability to focus or pay attention. An extremely low level of
some neurotransmitters creates the potential of violent behavior.
MAIN CAUSES of
Neurotransmitter Deficiencies
GENETIC: A person's genetic make up
is responsible for low, high or balanced levels of transmitters from birth.
STRESS: Stress depletes
neurotransmitters! Any type of stress . . . lack of sleep, everyday mental and
emotional battles or poor health, will deplete "feel good"
transmitters. This results in a reduction of transmitters needed for sleep, as
well as pain blocking transmitters.
DIET: The specific amino acids that
our brains manufacture transmitters from are frequently not supplied by our
modern diet or in the way our brain best utilizes them. As stress further
depletes supplies it is difficult, if not impossible, for the brain to restore
necessary amounts to proper levels.
Stress Depletes Neurotransmitters
In handling daily stress the brain uses feel good transmitters called endorphins (opiods). When large amounts are needed to handle stress, the RATIO of many of the other transmitters, one to another, becomes upset creating a chemical imbalance.
We begin to FEEL stress more acutely -- a sense of urgency and anxiety creates more stress. Harmful chemicals are released in our bodies that do damage, causing more stress. We call this vicious cycle the "stress cycle." Emotional fatigue can result, and be experienced and felt as depression.
Researchers estimate that stress contributes to as many as 80% of all major illnesses that include cardiovascular disease, cancer, endocrine and metabolic disease, skin disorders and infectious ailments of all kinds.
Studies by the American Medical Association have shown stress to be a factor in over 75% of all illnesses today.
Research linking stress to a variety of diseases and illnesses has been the subject of more than 20,000 scientific studies.
Amino Acids, Vitamins, and Minerals Therapy
Neurotransmitter deficiencies can be expressed as both psychological (behavioral pattern) and physiological (physical craving) problems. Amino acid therapy provides the nutrition needed to overcome the physiological problems.
The ingredients in the beCALM'd capsule
gives the manufacturing cells an over abundance of the nutrients they need, to produce the
necessary amounts of the Neurotransmitters the brain needs.The Stress cycle never starts,
which means the high energy chemicals are not pumped into the body to do damage.