I'm going to do a post about neurotransmitters cos they're awesome.

I love neurotransmitters more than I love maths these days. And don't get me wrong, maths is excellent! Yet if it weren't for these lovely little things that opened up my happy pathways, where would I be without neurotransmitters? Life would be terrible without them. Of course, I barely know anything about this. I might as well waffle on about my favourite couple of chemicals, overgeneralise and misrepresent the whole field and degrade and misinform people of these wonderful things. Oh well. But just so you're warned, I don't know much about this yet. But I shall do at some point soon.

So I guess that first we have our amino acids. Glycine, Alanine, Valine, Leucine, Isoleucine, Methionine, Proline, Cysteine, Phenylalanine, tyrosine and Tryptophan. Of course, this is not them all. There are 20 in total, or sometimes 21. It's debatable. However, Tryptophan is the super-duper one that is on my wall at the moment. It is an essential amino acid, ergo must be obtained through diet (I heard that turkey's good, and so's cheese, but I wouldn't place money on it) and helps with release of the neurotransmitter serotonin and in turn, some sort of synthesis of melatonin as well. That's the happy chemical and sleepy chemical to those who aren't so bio-molecularly minded out there...