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kmud-110617-serotonin-endotoxins-stress — Ray Peat Clip

This curated audio highlight features Ray Peat speaking in the interview kmud-110617-serotonin-endotoxins-stress. The excerpt begins at 00:11:44 and runs for 42 seconds.

So it didn't increase their serotonin, it actually decreased their serotonin. Yeah, I think the antidepressants that work are actually in the long run shifting the balance away from serotonin. But it doesn't matter now because the perception is out that serotonin is the good guy and you take these antidepressants and it increases the good guy and you feel better. Yeah, over the last 40 years, there have been many papers published showing that, starting back with the LSD research, they saw that LSD counteracted the effects of serotonin on smooth muscle,