Moods Don't Have to Have the Last Word: Changing Your Neurochemistry With Vitamins and Minerals

Feeling like cement, like a cloudy day: Adjust your neurotransmitters and catecholamines with vitamins and minerals

Sprawled across my bed, unable to get up, feeling a grey and black gaseous substance clogging my mind, memory, motivation. I know this. And many of my clients who are high functioning with interesting careers have experienced this as well. Our bodies and minds are incredibly complex. Many physiological systems impact our moods and when you see all the lines of connection, it seems amazing we ever feel good.

Methylation pathways that are genetically working either optimally or not, based on your inherited genes and environmental factors, impact your mood drastically. Methylation is the multitudinous process that allows you to create and break down serotonin, dopamine, norepinephrine as well as many other life-preserving functions.

So, if you’ve done a test with Ancestry.com or 23 and me, look at the COMT and MAO pathways. Those pathways have enormous influence on mood. If you haven’t done the test, you can set up an appointment and I can evaluate the functioning of these pathways, using kinesiology.

The folic acid cycle that moves folic acid from the intestine to the blood to the cells is essential in producing serotonin, dopamine, norepinephrine, and glutamate–all related to mood. The folate binds to BH4 and creates serotonin from tryptophan and B6. The Nitric Oxide pathway is also involved in depressive moods as is the Vitamin D receptor.

I could list the vitamins, minerals and amino acids that support these pathways, but what I find with kinesiology is that’s very individual, what one person can cause problems in another. Consider learning about your own genetics and methylation as a way to improve moods