Serotonin, Mood and Weight Loss — An Interview with Judith Wurtman
Written on August 18, 2007 by Mike Kinnaird.
We all want to feel the best we can right? We want to be happy dammit!
Well, it turns out that feeling good has a whole lot to do with chemicals–brain chemicals called neurotransmitters and one of those is called serotonin.
Dr. Judith Wurtman is an expert in serotonin. She lives in Boston, Massachusetts and has researched serotonin for many years at MIT. She’s kindly agreed to help us out with some questions about this whole idea of how serotonin is connected to feeling good but also, surprisingly, to obesity, emotional eating, and binge eating. Read more