Gary Brecka

And they would add nitrogen to the soil, and the leaf would heal.

Human beings are no different.

When you deprive the body of certain raw material, you get the expression of disease.

And so again, I don't know if I answered your question, or I just rambled.

My wife says I eat people's face.

So sorry if I just ate your face.

Yeah, you know, I think it's fascinating the way that you talked about serotonin, you know, the main driver of mood, main driver of emotion.

And it is the vast majority of serotonin is made right here in our gut.

And what we do is we take an amino acid called tryptophan, the famous one that makes you sleepy at Thanksgiving dinner.

And we methylate that into the neurotransmitter serotonin.

And serotonin is not only responsible for vascular tone.

When you think about vascular tone, what is that?

Well, if you realize that our heart only circulates 30% of the blood in our body, most people think our heart is circulating all of the blood in our body.

It's not.

70% of your circulation is done by an activity called vasomotor.

These are very small capillaries and venules.

And serotonin has a distinct effect on the tone of this vasomotor activity, driving blood pressure up.

So mood and emotion have direct effects through the gut on how we manifest disease and pathology.

I've had so many cases of...

patients with chronic hypertension that we solved by calming down their resistance to serotonin and by actually fixing the methylation pathway and allowing their vascular system to relax and their pressure to return to normal.