Serotonin is OLD

By Georgina Bailey

The function of serotonin throughout evoultion has been as a regulator of cell health- and to reduce oxidative stress. What were life conditions first like for these creatures? In order to make serotonin- TRYPTOPHAN must be combusted with oxygen. Plants have the nessessary enzimes to “make it so”. Humans do not have the biochemical pathways to make tryptophan (the precursor to serotonin, melatonin, and niacin) so we eat other animals to get this essential amino acid- which is essential to life.

As evoultion got more “complicated” the function of serotonin adapted- but always retained it’s evolutionary function.

BTW…. Serotonin is just another derivative of tryptophan (just like psilocybin is…)

Just sayin,

G