Do they make pills that make serotonin?

im ot sure if this does what you want, or if it has the opposite effect (its either one or the other) but klonazapan helps with neurological problems. one major side affect is that is makes you EXTREMELY tired. its also very addictive. you have to get off it very gradually or else your body wont react well.

Well my friend told me something about a pill that does what I described and I was unsure if there was such a thing.

well, klonazapan is used when your body twitches a lot. it helps reduce the jerking motion. i think the twitch is caused by unsteady doses of seretonin between neurons, and the klonazapan helps balance it out. it is highly addictive. only take it in small doses and for the shortest amount of time possible. when not much was known about it, i started on it with something like 8 mg daily and im still on 3–4 daily, after 14 years. i had some pretty bad reactions if i didnt take it like vomiting, excessive sweating and severe diareaha. those are bad memories.

As far as I remember from neuropsychology classes, pills don’t produce that kind of effect (they don’t “make” serotonin), they just act by inhibiting or enhancing the re-uptake of neurotransmissors such as serotonin.

Serotonin taken orally doesn’t get into your brain, but some of the aminoacids that it’s made of can, so that has an indirect effect on increasing the production of serotonin.

You can read more about it here

SSRIs are all that I know of.

felipelavinz is correct. The best you can do is encourage your body to synthesize more by getting more tryptophan. I have no idea how effective that is. This article found that taking oral tryptophan did increase serotonin levels but only in some brain regions (in non-human primates). Here’s another, more recent article that also finds elevated serotonin levels in rats after taking oral tryptophan. And finally, a meta-analysis of the available data for using different serotonin precursors to treat depression. I can’t access the full article from home but if you’re interested I can check it out at work and let you know what it says.

Just smile it increases serotonin.

I have been taking 5HTP for 2 years now..(hydroxy-tryptophan). I started taking it on the advice of my naturopath to help me to stop smoking as, try as I might with all my will power and dislike of cigarettes, I just could not give up!!!..it worked amazingly well and I have been a non-smoker ever since. I also used to suffer from bouts of depression – I never went to the doctor about it but used to cope with it..causing a lot of problems for myself and those around me..but since taking 5HTP (it is actually called Serotonin on the bottle – by Higher Nature) I never get depressed at all! I take 1 pill of 100mg three times a day, no side effects at all and I recommend it to everyone I know.