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What's the bioenergetic view on serotonin?

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.

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 wellbeing. He tied chronically elevated serotonin to a shift away from oxidative metabolism toward a lower-energy, stress-adapted state. Georgi Dinkov builds on this, pointing to antiserotonin compounds such as cyproheptadine as a way to restore metabolic rate.

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