
0:21
Your brain's feel-good chemicals depend on B-vitamins and minerals that act as cofactors in enzyme reactions. Without enough of these nutrients, your body can't produce neurotransmitters efficiently, which affects your mood and mental state.

Your brain's feel-good chemicals depend on B-vitamins and minerals that act as cofactors in enzyme reactions. Without enough of these nutrients, your body can't produce neurotransmitters efficiently, which affects your mood and mental state.
Neurotransmitter balance is kind of where it's at for how your brain's feeling. A lot of nutrients are there to help the enzyme take you from the brain trying to make a neurotransmitter to actually making it. Things like your B vitamins and your minerals— without them, the enzyme slows down that makes that neurotransmitter.