Video: Increasing Serotonin to Lose Weight

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Serotonin is the brain neurotransmitter that helps to control food cravings. Lose weight quickly and easily with these weight loss tips from an experienced dietitian in this free video on health and eating.

Video Transcript

Hi, this is Rachael Richardson, with Nutrolution, in South Beach, Miami, Florida. In this clip, we're going to talk about how to increase your serotonin levels to lose weight. Serotonin might be one of the most important brain neurotransmitters that we have, and it helps us to reduce our cravings, so if our neurotransmitter levels are low; our serotonin, then we have more cravings for things like food, alcohol, tobacco, and other drugs like that, so we definitely don't want to have low neuro serotonin levels, and the best ways to increase them are number one, to exercise. That is the quickest way to increase your serotonin levels. Another way nutritionally to do the same thing is to increase your protein, so getting more protein throughout the day will help you increase your serotonin levels. Part B to that recommendation is to make sure that you have good digestive health, because that's where your neurotransmitters are produced. So making sure to take good probiotics, and eat foods rich in probiotics is going to help you improve your serotonin. This is Rachael Richardson, and this has been how to increase serotonin to lose weight.

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