catecholamine

The paper describes finding an enzyme that can cleave catecholamine precursors.

So in people with elevated catecholamine levels sugar intake tends to unmask damage and initiate a healing process.

Sustained zero sugar/carb intake is extremely stressful for the body and sends catecholamine levels way up, accelerating aging.

Eating loads of meat and under consuming sugar and starch, for example, will send catecholamine levels way up.

Hypertension and increased plasma catecholamine concentrations have been observed during surgery and attributed to spinal reflexes.

Nicotine causes catecholamine release both locally and systemically leading to an increase in heart rate, blood pressure and cardiac contractility.

The stress could be from inflammation, catecholamine release, or even the increased blue light.

That’s not wrong, but it ignores the effects of catecholamine metabolism and the co-storage of dopamine and noradrenaline in the same vesicles.

In contrast, MA stimulates the postsynaptic catecholamine receptors directly.[2] Increased dosage is only one part of the difference between Methamphetamine and Amphetamines.

Elevated adrenaline levels are easily tested for in a simple catecholamine blood test.

Blunted catecholamine responses after glucose ingestion in children with attention deficit disorder.

The neurological tradeoffs involved in catecholamine reuptake inhibition are relatively well-known and uncontroversial; to me, much more interesting are the implications of long-term racetam use.

My understanding is that "chemical imbalance" theory was a popular misunderstanding of a more limited and specific theory called the ”catecholamine hypothesis" which has itself been pretty much debunked.