13 Ways to Naturally Boost Your Serotonin

Serotonin is known as the “happy hormone”. It plays a key role in our hormones and helps stabilize our mood, feelings of well-being, and contributes to our overall happiness. This hormone impacts our entire body. It enables brain cells and other nervous system cells to communicate with each other.

Serotonin also helps with sleeping, eating, and digestion. It’s considered a natural mood stabilizer. It also regulates anxiety and even helps you sleep.

Typically the normal range for serotonin levels in your blood is 101–283 nanograms per milliliter (ng/mL). This benchmark, however, may differ slightly depending on the measurements and samples tested, so talk to your doctor about specific test results.

I wanted to share 12 simple and effective ways you can naturally boost your body's serotonin TODAY!

• Walk in nature

• Take vitamin B-complex

• Listen to music you enjoy

• Sun exposure

• Go for a run

• Meditate

• Swim

• Eat complex carbohydrates

• Take a vitamin D supplement

• Cycle

• Get a massage

• Have sex

• Write a gratitude list

What habit of these can you say you practice most often?

If you’re someone who frequently experiences mood swings or struggles with depression, try working at least five of these practices into your daily schedule and see how that changes your overall mood and happiness.