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[iseethelight]

If I consume 3+ egg yolks( raw or boiled), my depression disappears for a good 6 hours. I'm pumped, motivated and enjoy life. But it also makes my hands iceeee colddd. They're cold to the point where if affects my work and social life. 

My question is what in the eggs is curing my depression and what is making my hands cold?

If I can isolate them then I can just buy that supplement separately. 

It's not the choline (I've tried all kinds of choline (bitartrate, cdp, alpha-gpc), they only make me depressed after a few days.

The next nutrient that eggs are high in is cholesterol, could it be the cholesterol increasing my testosterone temporarily?

Any advice and tips are welcomed? I'm a zombie most of the time and eggs wake me up but I can't stand the ice cold hands...

 

[gamesguru]

egg yolks contain large amounts of tryptophan, a precursor to serotonin, which acts as a vasoconstrictor (they also contain choline and you might be low in acetylcholine, serotonin and acetylcholine both play a role in depression). it's also possible the saturated fat content is affecting blood flow, and causing the cold hands aka "Raynaud's syndrome"

Edited by gamesguru, 10 June 2016 - 01:30 AM.

[iseethelight]

egg yolks contain large amounts of tryptophan, a precursor to serotonin, which acts as a vasoconstrictor (they also contain choline and you might be low in acetylcholine, serotonin and acetylcholine both play a role in depression). it's also possible the saturated fat content is affecting blood flow, and causing the cold hands aka "Raynaud's syndrome"

 

The tryptophan is in the whites mostly. I don't consume the whites. I don't get cold hands when I take choline precursors. So those two are out of the equation. I don't get cold hands from other high saturated fat foods. It has to be something else in the eggs. 

[normalizing]

iseethelight perhaps its the antibiotics and the prozac given to chicken? of course 2 out of maybe 20 to 30 different things fed to regular chickens on daily bases bred for human consumption eggs or meat wise

[Mr Serendipity]

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Edited by Jesus is King, 27 August 2020 - 09:22 PM.