Give Your Peptides a Pep-Talk

With the understanding of the role peptides have on our cells we can see how we become addicted to certain emotions and thus become stuck in a rut. 

Peptides are the proteins that are sent out from the brain (hypothalamus) to the cells and tell the cells what is happening in order for the cells to function and help the body respond to its environment.  There are specific peptides that correspond to our range of emotions such as anger, sadness, fear, happiness, etc.  When we feel a certain emotion our hypothalamus produces the peptide chain for that emotion and sends it out to the body so the cells know what to do.

What happens over time is the body develops a neural net or pathway in the brain that becomes the basis for how to respond and act to the world around it.  The brain thus sends out peptides to correspond to the body’s learned reaction to various events and situations.  The cells have receptors for each peptide on the outer membrane, but if some peptides are never received then the receptors on the cell membrane disappear and the membrane develops more receptors for the peptides it normally receives.  So in essence it begins to crave certain peptides. 

If we don’t create peptides for happiness regularly then our cells diminish the number of receptors for that peptide and we find it harder and harder to become happy.  If we want to be happy then we need to at the very least practice happiness consistently in order for our cells to become used to receiving the peptide.

What’s even more important is that when our cells mutate and create a new cell, that new cell will carry the information about the old cell and not have the receptors for peptides that its mother cell never received.  So in essence we are foreshadowing ourselves by the thoughts and emotions we express right now.