Why can’t you just inject serotonin to feel happy?
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you know how when you eat a piece of candy, it makes you feel happy, right? Well, there’s a chemical in your brain called serotonin that can also make you feel happy. It’s like a magic happy chemical, But, if you just inject serotonin into your body to try to feel happy, it’s kind of like cheating. Your brain wouldn’t know why you suddenly have so much serotonin, and it could actually make you feel worse instead of better. It’s like if you eat too much candy at once, you might feel sick instead of happy, Plus, your brain needs to make its own serotonin in the right amounts to keep you healthy and feeling good over time. So, while it might be tempting to try to inject happiness, it’s better to let your brain do it naturally.
you know how when you eat a piece of candy, it makes you feel happy, right? Well, there’s a chemical in your brain called serotonin that can also make you feel happy. It’s like a magic happy chemical, But, if you just inject serotonin into your body to try to feel happy, it’s kind of like cheating. Your brain wouldn’t know why you suddenly have so much serotonin, and it could actually make you feel worse instead of better. It’s like if you eat too much candy at once, you might feel sick instead of happy, Plus, your brain needs to make its own serotonin in the right amounts to keep you healthy and feeling good over time. So, while it might be tempting to try to inject happiness, it’s better to let your brain do it naturally.
Serotonin is named after “serous tone” which means it makes (digestive) organs contract (and as it happens, make some blood vessels swell).
There’s a type of tumor called a carcinoid that can do just that.
Imagine chemicals can be part of a dialect that are the language of how organs and cells work.
Imagine the brain is a separate place with separate rules and especially grammar from the rest of the body that needs to work hard in different ways in its own languages and dialects with a least seven languages each with a couple local dialects and has strong guards to make sure that any chemical that would try to do what it could elsewhere generally couldn’t, since the brain only needs other places to do things, like get oxygen from the lungs that the heart got there, and sugar/ATP from digestion. It wouldn’t make sense to grow chocolate in Switzerland and make candy bars in warm places it would melt anyway! Same idea.
To get to the brain by injection, it’d cause a lot of problems with the rest of the body.
Your task is to think up some ways around that.
Quick edits to refine.
Serotonin is named after “serous tone” which means it makes (digestive) organs contract (and as it happens, make some blood vessels swell).
There’s a type of tumor called a carcinoid that can do just that.
Imagine chemicals can be part of a dialect that are the language of how organs and cells work.
Imagine the brain is a separate place with separate rules and especially grammar from the rest of the body that needs to work hard in different ways in its own languages and dialects with a least seven languages each with a couple local dialects and has strong guards to make sure that any chemical that would try to do what it could elsewhere generally couldn’t, since the brain only needs other places to do things, like get oxygen from the lungs that the heart got there, and sugar/ATP from digestion. It wouldn’t make sense to grow chocolate in Switzerland and make candy bars in warm places it would melt anyway! Same idea.
To get to the brain by injection, it’d cause a lot of problems with the rest of the body.
Your task is to think up some ways around that.
Quick edits to refine.
Serotonin is named after “serous tone” which means it makes (digestive) organs contract (and as it happens, make some blood vessels swell).
There’s a type of tumor called a carcinoid that can do just that.
Imagine chemicals can be part of a dialect that are the language of how organs and cells work.
Imagine the brain is a separate place with separate rules and especially grammar from the rest of the body that needs to work hard in different ways in its own languages and dialects with a least seven languages each with a couple local dialects and has strong guards to make sure that any chemical that would try to do what it could elsewhere generally couldn’t, since the brain only needs other places to do things, like get oxygen from the lungs that the heart got there, and sugar/ATP from digestion. It wouldn’t make sense to grow chocolate in Switzerland and make candy bars in warm places it would melt anyway! Same idea.
To get to the brain by injection, it’d cause a lot of problems with the rest of the body.
Your task is to think up some ways around that.
Quick edits to refine.
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There have been electrodes in the past that can make you happy, but there’s definitely equipment issues that mean you can’t do that at home.
There have been electrodes in the past that can make you happy, but there’s definitely equipment issues that mean you can’t do that at home.
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