Ray Peat Audio Archive

blp-200807-what-s-so-happy-about-serotonin? — Ray Peat Clip

This curated audio highlight features Ray Peat speaking in the interview blp-200807-what-s-so-happy-about-serotonin?. The excerpt begins at 49:58 and runs for 1 minute 21 seconds.

Yeah. The things that preserve and increase your tissue carbon dioxide are holding down, even if your intestine is producing quite a bit of serotonin. If your carbon dioxide is being maintained at a high level in your whole body, the titlets will then be able to transport, pick up the serotonin from your intestine and bind it tightly so it passes through your whole blood circulatory system and is carried to the lungs where the sudden release disappearance of the carbon dioxide and surge in of oxygen causes the platelets to spill their serotonin into the lung air chambers where the lung tissue is able -- with mono-amino oxidase functions, your lungs destroy the serotonin.