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?

Question

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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Answer 1

Mostly because with diabetes you don’t monitor insulin but blood sugar and then administer insulin accordingly.

Measuring blood sugar is relatively easy but you can’t measure how much neurotransmitters are in the blood because they are not in the blood.