Epiphany comments on How to Deal with Depression - The Meta Layers - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Epiphany 28 October 2012 05:32:55AM *  3 points [-]

I have. I read somewhere (don't feel like digging up the citation right now) that you require sugar (in your blood, which does not necessarily require you to eat sugar) and B vitamins to process tryptophan into serotonin. Also, you need to have tryptophan in your system. And water. Point is, since we get necessary ingredients for our brain chemicals from food, we need food to be happy.