What would you like to understand bioenergetically?

Bioenergetic writers treat serotonin less as the “happiness molecule” and more as a mediator of stress and metabolic slowdown. Ray Peat described it as rising under stress, hypothyroidism, and darkness — where it drives inflammation, fibrosis, and vasoconstriction rather than wellbeing1. He tied chronically elevated serotonin to a shift away from oxidative metabolism toward a lower-energy, stress-adapted state2. Georgi Dinkov builds on this, pointing to antiserotonin compounds such as cyproheptadine as a way to restore metabolic rate3.