You've heard people throw the word serotonin around, right?
But do you know what serotonin is and how it connects with the quality of your memory?
Well, if you want to experience a better life, it's time to pay attention.
Serotonin is not only essential to having healthy memory abilities. It also helps you feel good, sleep better and works magic on your mood when you're feeling down.
In fact, as a neurotransmitter derived from tryptophan …
Serotonin May Be The Most Important Anti-Depressant In The World!
Actually, there's a lot of controversy about whether or not serotonin levels create depression. It's only known that many people with depression show low levels of this chemical.
But here's the real question:
How can you actually use the information you're about to read?
Easy: If you can get your serotonin in order, you'll not only feel better, but you might not need SSRIs and whatever other pills you've been taking to regulate your mood. I've taken a lot of those pills myself, and although none of what you'll read in this post should be taken as medical advice …
I can't emphasize this enough:
Healthy Serotonin Levels = Better Learning And Memory
Why?
Because there are seven distinct receptors with different densities. When things get messed up with your serotonin, you're much more likely to experience the aging of your memory and fall into risk for Alzheimer's and other issues.
In order to understand exactly how serotonin is connected with memory, we need to look at how it interacts with other neurotransmitters. These include:
Basically, all of these elements hang together and require precious balancing in order for you to be able to learn and remember.
When it comes to serotonin, scientists have found that by using serotonin reuptake inhibitors like alaproclate and oxotremorine, they can improve memory retrieval. Moreover, its believed that with more research, they'll be able to use related chemicals to suppress the retrieval of addiction-primed memories.
Sounds Like A Mouthful, Right?
It's actually easy to understand:
When it becomes possible to treat addiction-associated memories, that drug addicts might experience decreased cravings. That means fewer destructive behaviors to themselves and others in society.
The reason serotonin plays such a huge role in this area of memory is that its connection to different receptors involve reward-based learning, something that can be helpful, so long as negative drugs like tobacco aren't involved. (By the way, stop smoking.)
But it's not just all about addiction memory. Serotonin is also involved in:
Boosting Spatial Memory
If you're serotonin levels are in check, you have much better chances of remembering locations and the relative distance between objects. This means that you can use a new place you visit as a Memory Palace with greater ease.
Mastering Emotional Memory
It's well known that we tend to remember things with greater accuracy and vividness when emotions are involved. But if you're low on serotonin, you might not be experiencing emotions properly.
Lower emotional capacity also means that you may not be paying attention properly. You cannot encode information into memory that you haven't registered either in part or whole.
This explains why depression and other mental illnesses are so devastating for memory, especially since emotions are often so short-lived.
Luckily, however, we can generate emotions at will. By using mnemonics, we can supercharge every piece of information we meet so that it is more memorable. But it
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