Magnesium
- Effects of magnesium supplementation on testosterone levels
- Magnesium Status and Stress: The Vicious Circle Concept Revisited
- Effect of magnesium supplementation on blood pressure: a meta-analysis
- Role of magnesium supplementation in the treatment of depression: A randomized clinical trial
- Rapid recovery from major depression using magnesium treatment
L-theanine
- Inhibiting effects of theanine on caffeine stimulation evaluated by EEG in the rat
- “…Next, the stimulatory effects of caffeine were inhibited by an i.v. administration of theanine at a level higher than 5 micromol/kg (0.781 mg/kg) b.w., and the results suggested that theanine has an antagonistic effect on caffeine’s stimulatory action at an almost equivalent molar concentration.”
- Preventive effect of theanine intake on stress-induced impairments of hippocamapal long-term potentiation and recognition memory
- Protective effect of l-theanine on chronic restraint stress-induced cognitive impairments in mice
- Anti-Stress, Behavioural and Magnetoencephalography Effects of an L-Theanine-Based Nutrient Drink
- Effects of chronic l-theanine administration in patients with major depressive disorder: an open-label study
- “…Our study suggests that chronic (8-week) l-theanine administration is safe and has multiple beneficial effects on depressive symptoms, anxiety, sleep disturbance and cognitive impairments in patients with MDD.”
- Theanine-induced Reduction of Brain Serotonin Concentration in Rats
- Effects of theanine on monoamine neurotransmitters and related genes in cerebral ischemia-reperfusion injury rats
- Theanine Both Reduces Serotonin And Increases Dopamine
Sunlight
- Effect of continuous light on spermatogenesis and testicular steroidogenesis in rats: possible involvement of alpha 2u-globulin
- Sunshine-exposure variation of human striatal dopamine D2/D3 receptor availability in healthy volunteers
- Lack of interest in sex successfully treated by exposure to bright light
- Endocannabinoids produced in photoreceptor cells in response to light activate Drosophila TRP channels
- Light exposure of photoreceptors stimulates signaling cascade that induces phospholipase C NORPA to generate lipids that stimulate Ca2+ influx via cation channels TRP & TRPL. Sokabe et al. identified endocannabinoids produced in response to light that activated TRP & TRPL.
- View through a window may influence recovery from surgery
- The Role of Gene Encoding Variation of DRD4 in the Relationship between Inattention and Seasonal Daylight
Endocrine Disruptors
- Widespread Occurrence of Bisphenol A in Daily Clothes and Its High Exposure Risk in Humans
- Plastics and Environmental Health: The Road Ahead
- Bisphenol A
- Plastic accumulation in the North Atlantic subtropical gyre
- Most Plastic Products Release Estrogenic Chemicals: A Potential Health Problem That Can Be Solved
- Endocrine disrupting effects of bisphenol A exposure and recent advances on its removal by water treatment systems. A review
- Plastics Derived Endocrine Disruptors (BPA, DEHP and DBP) Induce Epigenetic Transgenerational Inheritance of Obesity, Reproductive Disease and Sperm Epimutations
- Bisphenol A and Phthalates: How Environmental Chemicals Are Reshaping Toxicology
- Concentrations of bisphenol A and parabens in socks for infants and young children in Spain and their hormone-like activities
- Plastics derived endocrine‐disrupting compounds and their effects on early development
- Effect of environmental and pharmaceutical exposures on fetal testis development and function
- Plasticenta: First evidence of microplastics in human placenta
- Sperm Count Zero
Glutamate and mental illness
- High intelligence: A risk factor for psychological and physiological overexcitabilities
- High IQ = high glutamate personality
- “Specifically, those with a high intellectual capacity (hyper brain) possess overexcitabilities in various domains that may predispose them to certain psychological disorders as well as physiological conditions involving elevated sensory, and altered immune and inflammatory responses”
- How stress tears us apart
- “…The investigations conducted by the researchers led them to an enzyme involved in the process of protein degradation: MMP-9. It was already known that chronic stress causes a massive release of glutamate, a molecule that acts on NMDA receptors, which are essential for synaptic plasticity and thus for memory. What these researchers found now is that these receptors activated the MMP-9 enzymes which, like scissors, literally cut the nectin-3 cell adhesion proteins…Interestingly, MMP-9 expression is also involved in other pathologies, such as neurodegenerative diseases, including ALS or epilepsy. "
- High Levels Of Glutamate Implicated In Depression / Suicide