Does ‘happy hormone’ affect weight?

Hormones are chemicals produced by different glands in the body. Each hormone has a role in participating in the growth process, responding to stress and helps to regulate mood. In particular, hormone dopamine and serotonin promotes a positive feeling, including joy, happiness, psychological comfort, delicious eating.

Dopamine is also known as “Happiness Happiness”, which plays a role in promoting positive emotions such as happiness and pleasure. The dopamine signal in the brain dominates the biological rhythm. If this signal is affected, you can eat a lot of energy -rich foods between meals, cravings, leading to overweight, obesity.

Hormone Serotonin helps regulate mood as well as sleep, cravings, digestion, learning ability and memory. When happy, you have a psychological comfort, enjoy relaxation and want to eat more.

The feeling of happiness in love can also cause weight gain. Because when fun, dopamine hormones, serotonin, oxytocin and endorphins stimulate the brain to create appetite, easily leading to loss of eating control. This may be one of the causes of your husband and wife to gain weight after marriage.

To control your weight, your husband and wife should review the proper diet, balance combined with regular exercise. If the weight increases excessively, your husband and wife can go to the doctor to be consulted by a doctor’s healthy and safe weight loss method.