If chemicals like oxytocin, dopamine, and serotonin are so crucial to our mental health, why can’t we monitor them the same way diabetics monitor insulin?
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Blood sugar (the important thing when you’re diabetic) can be checked with any drop of blood. Neurotransmitters, on the other hand, are produced within the brain and remain within the brain, and tend to be released by one neurone and absorbed by another almost immediately. So there wouldn’t really be a level you could calculate unless you just took the entire brain, which we don’t have the technology to do
Blood sugar (the important thing when you’re diabetic) can be checked with any drop of blood. Neurotransmitters, on the other hand, are produced within the brain and remain within the brain, and tend to be released by one neurone and absorbed by another almost immediately. So there wouldn’t really be a level you could calculate unless you just took the entire brain, which we don’t have the technology to do
Blood sugar (the important thing when you’re diabetic) can be checked with any drop of blood. Neurotransmitters, on the other hand, are produced within the brain and remain within the brain, and tend to be released by one neurone and absorbed by another almost immediately. So there wouldn’t really be a level you could calculate unless you just took the entire brain, which we don’t have the technology to do
A comment I didn’t see yet, with diabetes, the by product of lack of insulin/insulin resistant is high blood sugar levels, we don’t track the hormone, we track glucose.
There is not enough understanding about the by product of those hormones.
A comment I didn’t see yet, with diabetes, the by product of lack of insulin/insulin resistant is high blood sugar levels, we don’t track the hormone, we track glucose.
There is not enough understanding about the by product of those hormones.
A comment I didn’t see yet, with diabetes, the by product of lack of insulin/insulin resistant is high blood sugar levels, we don’t track the hormone, we track glucose.
There is not enough understanding about the by product of those hormones.
Basically there hasn’t been that much interest in developing the technology to measure those compounds.
Basically there hasn’t been that much interest in developing the technology to measure those compounds.
Basically there hasn’t been that much interest in developing the technology to measure those compounds.
To add to many good points made here: Even if we could with perfect accuracy, we wouldn’t gain too much. Mental illness is MUCH more complicated than a simple disbalance of neurotransmitters. It’s a highly complex machinery of thousands of electrochemical processes across billions of neurons. You could measure the exact same composition of neurotransmitters in a suicidal patient and a dude who just won the lottery because there are so so many other factors at play.
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