Generally, when humans are happy, four types of hormones are secreted: dopamine, serotonin, endorphins, and oxytocin. The happiest hormone is dopamine but it is the serotonin hormone that gives you a pleasant feeling of happiness. Glands in the brain secrete a chemical called serotonin. When we are happy, this chemical is secreted that gives us a pleasant feeling.
When we eat nutritious and delicious food our mind naturally
becomes happy. Scientists have discovered that serotonin is produced in the
brain when eating such delicious food.
Not only humans but also other animals birds and even
insects secrete this serotonin chemical so that those creatures also feel
happy. Just as man feels happy when he eats delicious food, other living beings
also feel happy when they eat delicious food.
All this information has been revealed in joint research
conducted by the University of Cambridge in England and the University of
Bonn in Germany. They have had trouble taking the human brain, which has
billions of neurons, to conduct research on this.
The billions of neurons in the human brain are the most
difficult thing to research specifically, so do you know what they did? They
started looking for organisms with very few neurons.
They chose the fly as the organism with the fewest neurons
because the fly's brain has only ten thousand neurons, so they thought that
they could easily complete this research with it.
Accordingly, only 6 neurons of the fly that produce serotonin
were closely researched. They found serotonin production when the fly ate the
palatable food. The scientists who researched this say that in the same way that
the fly, which is getting that happy feeling, secretes the hormone serotonin
when it eats delicious food, it also happens in the human body.
If we see why this research, we naturally feel happy if we
eat tasty food, we can feel it without research but why did they do such research, we know that when we eat tasty food, we feel happy, but this test is
to find out which of these four hormones are produced at that time. They
conducted such studies to find out which type of neurons secrete serotonin
hormone and to cure the deficiency and diseases caused by it in humans.