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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It’s hard to get non indigenous neurotransmitters to the brain. Enzymes break them down before they can cross the blood brain barrier. However we can use drugs structured like these neurotransmitters to treat some diseases and conditions. A lot of schizophrenia medications are modeled like dopamine since the illness is caused by a dopamine disorder.
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