This is Optimal Living Daily Episode 1987.

Lower your serotonin to lower your social anxiety by Tyler Tavorin of Riscology.co

and I'm Justin Mollig your very own personal narrator.

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Lower your serotonin to lower your social anxiety by Tyler Tavorin of Riscology.co.

You're hardly alone if you describe yourself as socially anxious.

Almost 5% of people suffer from some form of it.

That doesn't seem like a big number but when you consider the whole world

that's 350 million people. You go to a party and freeze because everyone is looking at you.

In meetings you hope no one asks a question because your certain whatever you say

will be wrong. Maybe you avoid close relationships because you can't stand the idea

of sharing personal details with someone else. But what will they think when they find out you

aren't perfect? If that describes you, chances are you've known it for a long time.

Most people realize they're socially anxious in their early teens.

If you've ever talked to a doctor about it, you've probably gotten the same advice.

You need more serotonin. Maybe you've even been prescribed a selective serotonin re-uptake inhibitor.

SSRI. Serotonin is a complex chemical but the treatment is simple.

More serotonin fixes all kinds of psychological problems so why not anxiety too?

Recent research from Upsula University in Sweden though uncovered exactly the opposite.

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