{"id":4364,"date":"2016-04-10T18:53:37","date_gmt":"2016-04-10T21:53:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/icaro.med.br\/?p=4364"},"modified":"2025-06-25T15:32:47","modified_gmt":"2025-06-25T18:32:47","slug":"contraceptive-mg-serotonin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icaro.med.br\/en\/contraceptive-mg-serotonin\/","title":{"rendered":"Contraceptives, Magnesium and Serotonin"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-medium-font-size\" style=\"text-transform:uppercase\"><strong>ANTICONCEPTIONALS, MAGNESIUM and SEROTONIN - what are their relationships?<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:20px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>IMPORTANT:<\/strong> The use of hormonal contraceptives (usually after about 6 months) leads to a reduction in the amount of magnesium in the body.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A lack of magnesium and vitamin B6, also due to an increase in the hormone cortisol, causes the amino acid tryptophan to be converted in greater quantities into xanthurenic acid, which combines with insulin and reduces its activity. When insulin becomes less active, blood glucose rises, which causes the pancreas to increase its insulin production. With more insulin circulating, more glucose is taken up by the adipocytes (fat cells), which will lead to greater weight gain, overweight and, in more severe cases, greater chances of obesity, general complications from excess weight and even diabetes (along with various other factors, of course).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Got it? Many people today seek a diet richer in tryptophan (or its supplementation) to increase their levels of serotonin, the so-called \u201cpleasure hormone\u201d, but they may be harming themselves if they don't observe the other aspects mentioned in this post!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThings\u201d that reduce your magnesium levels: stress, too much coffee, hormonal contraceptives, excessive exercise and sugar (simple carbohydrates).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tryptophan in the human body, among other things, is converted into 5-HTP (5-hydroxy-tryptophan) which, in the presence of adequate levels of magnesium, zinc, vitamin B3, vitamin B6, folic acid and vitamin C, is transformed into serotonin. This neurotransmitter is fundamental to our well-being and emotional health, combats anxiety and depression, helps control appetite and has many other functions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At night, serotonin in the pineal gland is transformed into melatonin, a hormone that is essential for proper sleep for everyone: babies, children, adults and the elderly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ANTICONCEPCIONAIS, MAGN\u00c9SIO e SEROTONINA&nbsp;&#8211; quais s\u00e3o suas rela\u00e7\u00f5es IMPORTANTE: O uso de anticoncepcionais hormonais (j\u00e1 a partir de cerca de 6 meses, usualmente) leva \u00e0 redu\u00e7\u00e3o na quantidade de magn\u00e9sio no corpo. A falta de magn\u00e9sio e vitamina B6, tamb\u00e9m por elevar o horm\u00f4nio cortisol, faz com que o amino\u00e1cido triptofano seja convertido, em maior [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23888,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,10,258],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4364","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hormonios","category-doencas","category-saude-da-mulher"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icaro.med.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4364","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/icaro.med.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/icaro.med.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icaro.med.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icaro.med.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4364"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/icaro.med.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4364\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24820,"href":"https:\/\/icaro.med.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4364\/revisions\/24820"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icaro.med.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23888"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icaro.med.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icaro.med.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icaro.med.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}