Can Nootropics Really Help with Stress, Anxiety, and Depression?

Nootropics Can Boost Your Mood — but it’s a complex mechanism and requires the right ingredients.

We work longer hours. We drive farther distances to get to work, and we have more demands at work and at home.

On top of that, with the increased reliance on wireless communication, we’re more easily accessible than ever, which makes round the clock work requests and summons.

Add it all together, and you’ve got the perfect recipe for increased stress and decreased happiness, which quite frequently leads to feelings of depression, anxiety, and a reduced sense of self.

Now, depression is often blamed solely on an imbalance of neurotransmitters in the brain; however, reducing a serious disease such as depression to something as simple as the balance of your neurochemicals is a gross oversimplification of the disease and does a disservice to those who combat the affliction on a daily basis.

The truth is, depression is a much more complex disease, and research notes that there could be numerous causes of depression (medication, genetics, medical problems, etc.) outside of your levels of serotonin, dopamine, acetylcholine, and all the rest of the important neurotransmitters.[1,2]