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How Can Food Help Me Control My Emotions?

How Can Food Help Me Control My Emotions? (0:53)

The foods you eat can have a big impact on your emotions and your mood. In this video, registered dietician Frances Largeman-Roth explains how foods rich in magnesium can calm you, and why folate-rich foods that boost serotonin can improve your mood.

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Well, food actually has a lot of different impacts on neurotransmitters, on blood pressure, on blood sugar, so it can help you help to calm you down it can help you feel alert, and it's really important to think about what you're putting into your body because it does affect your mood. Foods that can calm you if you're really stressed out include foods that are rich in magnesium which include pumpkin seeds and omens lots of other types of nuts also spinach is a good source.

The neurotransmitter serotonin is the neurotransmitter that make us feel pleasure, that make's us feel happy, so foods that can boost serotonin will make you feel better, and some of those foods include carbohydrates, chocolates and also if you are not getting enough fluoride in you diet your brain cannot make serotonin .

So it's also important to get fully rich foods.