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Your Brain Your Chemistry

Neurotransmitters (and other Mood Changers). Your Brain Your Chemistry. All Natural – All Organic.

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Your Brain Your Chemistry

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  1. Neurotransmitters (and other Mood Changers) Your BrainYour Chemistry

  2. All Natural – All Organic Neurotransmitters responsible for: reward pathways, mood,sleep, muscle control, appetite, memory,heart rate, attention span, breathing, fight or flight, general intellectual function, blinking, blood pressure… Serotonin Epinephrine Dopamine

  3. Nicotine Activates Reward Pathways • Unnatural amounts of Dopamine and Serotonin are released in the brain. • The biochemistry is similar to that created by Cocaine and MDMA (Ecstasy) • Continued ingestion of nicotine creates an attachment to high levels of Dopamine

  4. Happiness at the Molecular Level

  5. The “Bliss” ReceptorAnandamide fits; THC fits • Ananda – from the Sanscrit for Bliss • Only discovered 20 years ago, anandamide is a neurotransmitter that is very rarely used, but plays a role in one’s regulation of pain, appetite, anxiety, fertility, depression and memory (studies show that it may induce forgetfulness) • THC fits this receptor perfectly

  6. Neurotransmitters and Imposters(i.e. DRUGS)

  7. Designing a NeurotransmitterOh, My Heart! NorepinephrineEpinephrine MethamphetaminePseudephedrine (Pseudophed®) AmphetamineMDMA (Adderall®)(Ecstasy)

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