90% of your mood and happy brain chemicals are formed in your gut

90% of your mood and happy brain chemicals are formed in your gut

This clearly shows us that when your gut is healthy, your mood, mental clarity, sharpness & overall mental health is in a much better place.

In a “healthy” gut your body will take protein and break it down into amino acids.

One of those amino acids is called Tryptophan which you find a lot in Turkey.

Tryptophan is converted into your happy mood chemical aka Serotonin.

But when there are high levels of inflammation in your body, your get robbed of your happy mood chemical.

When you’re inflamed in your gut, your neurotransmitters – which are your brain hormones – get affected.

Instead of using Tryptophan to produce Serotonin, your body uses it to produce Kynurenine.

Which is a metabolite that helps with inflammation & immune function.

As that has a higher degree of priority in that moment, rather than making you feel good.

Because of the absence of Serotonin production your mood starts to change.

You wake up with brain fog.

You feel sluggish.

You get triggered easily.

You feel slightly depressed.

Your anxiety is higher than usual.

You want to nap in the afternoon.

You walk into the doctor’s office and tells you that you’re either depressed or it’s just the bad weather recently.

This diagnosis is done without assessing your gut health with a few basic questions.

One of the most important questions to ask yourself is:

How do I feel 30-60 minutes after eating a mixed meal?

This will give you a good idea in which your gut health could be trending.

There’s a lot more to this, but it’s a good start.

Depending what symptoms you have, you’ll go down a different rabbit hole.

The Bristol Stool chart is another good tool to check this.

Your brain power can only work as well as your gut does.

By improving your gut health you’ll directly influence your income.

So whenever I hear someone who says that their business has plateaued a bit and they are tired, foggy and lack mental clarity – it’s pretty clear what’s going on.

You can’t outperform your biology.

By using performance medicine you can reach new levels of growth in your personal and professional life.

Don’t sleep on it because the high level entrepreneurs I’m working with are you going to smoke you.

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