Food for Mood. Nutrition for Menopausal Mood. Boost Your Mood With Food

You may wonder how the food that goes in your gut can affect your mood. Did you know that 90% of the serotonin receptors are found in the stomach. These receptors regulate the release of the hormone serotonin and certain neurotransmitters like dopamine and acetylcholine, which significantly affect your mood.

Serotonin is a chemical in the brain responsible for regulating happiness, anxiety, and mood. Low levels of serotonin are associated with depression, mood swings, and anxiety disorders. In simple terms, what goes in the stomach, communicates with the brain. 

The menopause can lead to changes in your mood, anxiety and lower energy. This is due to your body adjusting to the decline in levels of the hormones estrogen and progesterone and lack of sleep due to night sweats may also lead to mood swings.

Mood swings, irritability, anxiety and depression may all be symptoms of perimenopause and menopause.

Did you know that what you eat can effect you mood. Evidence suggests that as well as affecting our physical health, what we eat may also affect the way we feel.

Improving your diet may help to improve your menopausal mood. Research shows that there is a gut-brain connection so it’s not so strange that your gut can reflect how you are feeling emotionally.

To find out more and what to eat to help balance your mood have a listen to myself and the lovely Deanna Pizitz on her podcast Well and Worthy Life where we discuss gut-brain connection and how inflammation from foods we eat directly impacts our brain. We also discuss foods that boost our mood and the ones that can easily drag you down! I hope you enjoy it. Click the below link to listen to the podcast.

Thanks Deanna for such an interesting conversation.

If you want to understand what you should eat to improve your mood. Download my valuable free ebook, with meal plan, shopping list, and recipes below.