The starvation response afflicts all women, not just dieters. Today’s women still carry the genetic instructions for the starvation response and low serotonin. This makes a woman’s serotonin system respond differently to modern foods than a man’s. The wrong foods more easily inhibit a women’s serotonin and make her suffer.

Today’s diet is very high in protein and high in sugar foods. Nearly every meal contains meat, fish, poultry, or diary protein. Much of the modern diet consists of baked goods, candy, and processed foods, which are high in sugar. Unfortunately, these types of foods attack a woman’s serotonin.

Excess protein evokes the starvation response simply because excess meat is one of the ancient signals that a woman faced starvation. Animal protein formed a higher percentage of our ancestors’ meager daily caloric intake during times of starvation.

Our ancestor had a diet that consisted primarily of gathered plants and the occasional carrion, the remains of dead animal. It was hard to hunt with primitive weapons. Eating meat was rare event. However, in time of general starvation many animal died, and our ancestor feasted o the fallen bodies. At the same time the plant life disappeared. Therefore, excessive meat is a signal that brings on the starvation response.

Another signal for the starvation response is food high in sugar. Ancient fruit and vegetable has less sugar content than today’s varieties. The only time our ancient ancestor ate fruit and vegetable with a high sugar content is when starvation force them to eat rotting vegetables, and dried remain of vegetables, both of which have higher than normal sugar content. Thus, high sugar, insulin producing fruits and vegetables are associated with time of starvation.

Many modern women eat diets high in protein and full high sugar foods. This means that even women who do not “watch” their weight can go through life impaired by low serotonin. Most women will experience symptoms of low serotonin at some point during their lives, although they will not be clinically ill. Their symptoms will be milder and still strong enough to impair daily activities, but not strong enough to attract the attention of a doctor who might assume these problems are “just part of being women.”

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