8 Foods That Will Give Your Brain a Serotonin Boost Right Now

CNet ^ | Jan. 26, 2024 6:00 a.m. PT | Nasha Addarich Martínez

[Chad C. Mulligan]

Mounds bars are a two-fer! No wonder I love ‘em!

[madison10]

I eat blueberries by the gross in the summer. Yum!

[tinamina]

I ate all those things today, except for mushrooms.
Almost every day I eat homemade granola with coconut and no oatmeal just nuts. With this granola, I eat yogurt, homemade yogurt and green bananas. I also have fermented, turmeric and ginger juice with my Vit D w/K and B6 as well as other liquid B vitamins. Of course I had coffee and for dinner I had a salad with avocado. I also had homemade blue cheese dressing, which is fermented with sour cream. I made a barbecue sauce for my pork chop from raspberries and garlic, and a little tomato sauce with cloves and nutmeg.

[Bob434]

What? No Durian?

[tinamina]

Oh, and in the granola, I used dark chocolate, cocoa powder and coconut oil along with ground flax. I should be good.

[MayflowerMadam]

I love all of those things!

[metmom]

Ping

[Karliner]

Everything but coffee.

[TheWriterTX]

My favorite Sunday brunch to make for my family was a pound or two of bacon, home fries with diced onion and jalapeños (gives it a kick), homemade blueberry scones, and a melon fruit salad.

I miss cooking and baking.

[imardmd1]

I did some reseach a few years ago, and found that an ounce square of baking cocoa no sugar) has about 1,000 milligrams (1 gram, 1/28th of an ounce of phenylethanolamine, whic is the substance your body produces that affects your brain and give you the extreme happiness when you feel that you have "fallen in love."

But thatcocoa comes from roasted cacao beans ground up. But Dr. Gundry says that raw,unroated cacao powder made into a hot drink helps people stay 'young." I would think that there might be even more of the phenylethanolamine in the beabs before they are subjected to the roasting.

You can buy a pound of that powder at Walmarts for less than $10. I put a couple of rounded tablespoons of the powder, and the same amount of creamer, and a couple packs od stevia, plusa dash of cinnamon in a pint mug, and pour in hot water from the coffee machine, to make a reasonably tasty cup of chocolate.

Ithink that does more for you than just help you to be happy. I think it helps your heart and helps me to keep my body weight down also. Dr, gundry says that the people down in Central America who drink a lot of it live a lot longer, and are healthier.

[linMcHlp]

chocolate bkmk

[Chicory]

Me too! Everyone thinks I am weird. I have learned to tolerate some in my hot chocolate for the health benefits.

[Georgia Girl 2]

Cheetos? I don’t see Cheetos on the list. 😥

[DollyCali]

Thanks Red. Posted link on Trump Train

Glad to see dark chocolate on list!

[DollyCali]

You get an A+ !!!

I don’t do mushrooms Either. I don’t drink coffee or anything with caffeine because of Afib. I have plenty of the other things on that list not for health as much as I like them

[Karliner]

Just never liked it. Sure saves money:>)

[RebelTXRose]

Yum!

[imardmd1]

Oh, come on, RB! Any child can tell you that any food that tastes good makes you feel happy right away!

[Red Badger]

Chocolate is enough..............😁