What causes excesive seratonin levels?

Question

What do you do to reduce it. My friend is at 539 and is literly going crazy.

Answer 1

commonly, i would say mostly just drugs that effect serotonin levels.

Answer 2

The U S army will not take in recruits that have take Ritalin or Prozac because of what the drugs can do to the brain.

Answer 3

Carcinoid syndrome can cause excessive serotonin levels.

Heres a site than can tell you about both.

http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/...

Answer 4

Having s**y time

Answer 5

Well, there are an array of substances and conditions which increase serotonin levels in the body:

5-HTP (an amino acid--actually, a serotonin precursor)

Excessive Clomipramine (an antidepressant)

Excessive Triiodothyronine (T3--thyroid hormone)

Prozac

Tryptophan (an amino acid)

Carbohydrate-rich foods

Cocaine

Beware if you are using more than one drug that may upset your serotonin production. Serotonin syndrome could be fatal.

TO REDUCE SEROTONIN LEVELS:

There a re some ways to achieve this, but a safe and functional one is to stop carbohydrate of all sort for about 4-5 days and eat only highly proteinic foods. Protein has an adverse effect on serotonin levels, whether CH's do totally the opposite. Also any thing that increase dopamine will decrease serotonin. Tyrosine, the amino acid, will do so very well. About 2,600 mg daily for 5-7 days.

Sincerely,

MB

Answer 6

There is a big difference between serum (blood) serotonin levels and the levels in the brain which drug companies would like us to believe have something to do with depression (but have repeatedly failed to prove).

Serotonin does not cross the blood-brain barrier.

However, serum levels > 400 ng/mL might indicate a carcinoid tumour.

Answer 7

Selective Seratonin Reuptake Inhibitors,+SSRI s ;like prozac,specifically designed to cause seratonin to go higher for those with low seratonin,which is 1  cause  of several in depression.So,we try to figure out things to raise seratonin.Prozac causes a massive rise and most are comfortable with much less of a raise;1/2 ing prozac doses and then every other day with the half dose works for some.Walnuts,pecans,avacadoes,lots of carbohydrates like baked goods raise seratonin;Tryptophan,5-HTP,turkey all raise seratonin ,work by the same principals as prozac,zoloft,etc,but are milder,kinder to ones psyche.