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What's the bioenergetic view on serotonin?

Bioenergetic writers treat serotonin less as the “happiness molecule” and more as a mediator of stress and metabolic slowdown. Ray Peat described it as rising under stress, hypothyroidism, and darkness where it drives inflammation, fibrosis, and vasoconstriction rather than wellbeing. He tied chronically elevated serotonin to a shift away from oxidative metabolism toward a lower-energy, stress-adapted state. Georgi Dinkov builds on this, pointing to antiserotonin compounds such as cyproheptadine as a way to restore metabolic rate.

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years represented
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