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7 reasons why you feel down & irritable and what you can do about it

“Have you already tried everything to feel better again? More rest, more exercise, no alcohol, eating differently… and still it doesn’t help, or not fast enough? Then read these 7 reasons why, and what does work.”

Summary: Serotonin is the most important substance for your mood. When you produce enough of it, you feel calm, relaxed and happy. When you don’t, you feel down, irritable and tired more quickly. The good news: you can support serotonin production through both diet and lifestyle!

Reason 1

You only address the “outside” and not the cause

You start a new hobby. You book a weekend away. You look for distraction. And for a moment it feels better.

Yet you soon feel down again. How is that possible?

That “good, pleasant feeling” is determined by substances in your brain, of which serotonin is the most important. When you produce less serotonin, you don’t feel comfortable in your own skin.

There’s a reason they call serotonin the happiness hormone.

When your body produces more serotonin, you feel better, happier and more relaxed.

You can influence serotonin production through diet, lifestyle and supplements. This helps you feel less down.

Reason 2

You’re under constant stress, which directly leads to less serotonin

Your mind never stops. Work, family, sport, your phone that keeps buzzing. Plus all kinds of social commitments. Busy, busy, busy. Sound familiar?

During prolonged stress your body produces the stress hormone cortisol .

And here’s the problem: prolonged high cortisol lowers serotonin production.

When you’re under high stress, your body uses serotonin’s building block (tryptophan) to produce energy instead (via the kynurenine pathway).

And that makes sense: if you’re being chased by a lion, you want extra energy and there’s not much use in “being relaxed and cheerful”.

The longer you’re stressed, the emptier your stock of the happiness hormone serotonin.

In Serobooster we use a form of this “building block for serotonin” (5-hydroxytryptophan) from a natural source, which can only be used to produce serotonin. That way you produce the happiness hormone, even during stressful periods!

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Reason 3

You move too little (or too much), which lowers your serotonin production

Through physical activity your body absorbs serotonin’s building block better into the cells, which helps to produce serotonin.

But beware: training too much or too hard is counterproductive. Because intensive exercise is also a form of stress for your body. And stress again means: more cortisol, less serotonin.

So the trick is balance. Move enough, but don’t exhaust your body. Hard to get exactly right, and it takes weeks before you feel the difference.

It’s also important to have enough building blocks to produce enough in the first place.

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Reason 4

Your gut isn’t working optimally, even though that’s where you produce 95% of your happiness hormone

This surprises many people: 95% of all serotonin is produced in your gut.

And your gut and your brain are connected, via a large nerve (the vagus nerve).

Think of it as a phone line between your belly and your brain. If things are going well in your gut, your head receives calm signals.

If things go wrong, you notice that in your mood too.

And things go wrong regularly: through stress, a one-sided diet or a disrupted gut flora, your gut gets out of balance.

The result: you produce less serotonin, and you feel listless and down.

"For a long time I didn’t understand why I felt so listless and down when nothing really seemed to be wrong with me, until I read that almost all serotonin is produced in your gut. That was an eye-opener for me. I’ve had gut problems for years and I’d never made the link with my mood. Now two months into Serobooster and I feel my head becoming calmer. I now understand why — thank you so much, so happy!"

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Reason 5

You take in too few building blocks, so you produce too little happiness hormone

This is perhaps the most important reason. Because your body can only make serotonin if it has the right building blocks.

The route is simple: your body first makes 5-HTP (5-hydroxytryptophan) from tryptophan, and from that it then makes serotonin.

For this it also needs “helper substances”, such as vitamin B6, vitamin B12 and zinc. Think of these helpers as the “tools” to get the job done.

Missing these building blocks and helpers? Then you produce less serotonin.

That’s why we’ve taken this natural building block (5-hydroxytryptophan) from the seeds of the griffonia plant, which is converted into serotonin in a single step.

We then combine this with the helper substances active B12, B6 and zinc in one formula.

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Reason 6

You produce too little melatonin, so you sleep badly

Do you toss and turn at night? Do you wake up dead tired? That’s often connected to your serotonin.

What almost no one knows is that serotonin is used to produce the natural sleep hormone melatonin.

  • If you produce too little serotonin, you also produce less melatonin.
  • Less melatonin means you sleep badly.
  • Sleeping badly means you have more stress during the day.
  • More stress means you produce even less serotonin.
  • Even less serotonin means even less melatonin.

That’s how you end up in an endless vicious circle .

Irritable. Tired. Not comfortable in your own skin. This keeps you from being the person you want to be.

That’s why it can help to (temporarily) support your body’s own production, so you break out of this pattern.

More serotonin → more melatonin → good sleep → more relaxed and happy.

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Reason 7

Your brain doesn’t get the right substances to be happy

You’ve tried everything. Meditating, going to bed early, less screen time. Sometimes it seemed to help for a while, but the feeling of calm, energy and joy stayed away.

You wondered: am I just like this? And that’s no coincidence. As long as you only address your behaviour but ignore your neurochemistry, it stays like mopping the floor with the tap running.

The truth is: your brain needs the right substances to feel good. Serotonin and the helper substances B6, B12 and zinc.

Serobooster supports the natural production of serotonin and helps your brain to calm down.

So it’s not a matter of "making a fuss" or "not trying hard enough". It’s a matter of building blocks. And you can simply give those to your brain.

Just two capsules a day: griffonia extract, active B12, active B6 and zinc. All in one formula, made in the Netherlands. Now temporarily for only €0.66 per day. Not satisfied? Then there’s a 90-day money-back guarantee!

"I was sceptical, but this is the first supplement I really feel working. Less overthinking, more energy. Combine it with a good routine and the result is impressive."

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