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Nutrients work as helper molecules that let your brain make neurotransmitters, the chemicals that control your mood. Stress throws this balance off. Getting enough of the right nutrients keeps your brain's chemistry stable.

Nutrients work as helper molecules that let your brain make neurotransmitters, the chemicals that control your mood. Stress throws this balance off. Getting enough of the right nutrients keeps your brain's chemistry stable.
Nutrients often are helper molecules that help, for instance, the enzymes that operate our neurotransmitters. And neurotransmitter balance is kind of where it's at for how your brain's feeling. And stress messes with the way your brain's feeling. So a lot of nutrients are there to help the enzyme take you from the brain trying to make a neurotransmitter to actually making it.