Energy begins with the foods you eat. Your body burns the calories in your food, taking the energy released from the calories to produce specialized proteins called amino acids. These amino acids then go through a complex series of biochemical and electrical processes to create energy. In order to get the energy you desire, a long series of events has to occur within your body. Each level requires energy from the step before it.

LPA goes on to feed the production of a brain chemical called phenylethylamine (PEA). PEA is the “hormone of love,” contributing to a feeling of endless energy. Remember when you were full of stamina, needed little sleep, perhaps even lost your appetite and experienced less pain. That is all attributable to PEA.

PEA donates some of its energy to create other, even more potent chemicals including L-dopa. L-dopa is a powerful but short-lived brain nutrient that quickly converts to dopamine.

The final step of energy production is called the dopamine cascade. It is at this stage that dopamine transforms into norepinephrine. norepinephrine donates energy to as many as four trillion nerve synapses from your head to your toes.

It’s from these four trillion “reservoirs” that energy is transported throughout your body. Factors such as stress, overwork, worry, poor diet and lack of sleep rob these reservoirs of the precious energy you need. So many people lack energy because one or more of these factors are a part of their daily lives.

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