Andrew Huberman· PhD
Serotonin makes us feel more relaxed and calm.
The headline is broadly defensible, but the qualifications matter. Effect sizes vary by population, the strongest claims rest on shorter trials, and credible voices push back on how it's typically framed.
Serotonin makes us feel more relaxed and calm.
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for sake of today's discussion, we're going to think about the predominant states that it creates and those are states of contentness, being happy, feeling fairly relaxed, feeling soothed and to some extent, even some relief from pain or lack of pain.