Posted by Lorraine on June 5, 2001, at 2:35:29
In reply to Re: tryptophan depletion challenge » Lorraine, posted by Elizabeth on June 4, 2001, at 16:29:01
{ I wouldn't expect 5-HTP to help anyway, certainly not immediately.}
Why not? It's a precursor to trytophan, isn't it?
{TDC}
What is TDC?
> > I have also tried tyrosine, phenylalmine, glutamine, gaba, choline. They all have immediate and fairly profound effects on me.
Tyrosine is a real puppy upper, but can cause me to hyperventilate. Phenylalamine makes me feel "pressure". It's a wierd but uncomfortable feeling for me. (Doesn't it metabolize to PEA?) Glutamine is another puppy upper for me although not as strong as Tyrosine. Once between meds I took Tyrosine, Phenylalamine and Glutamine together (I think about 1 gm each 2x day) and I made it through a funeral trip--but not that well. GABA sedates me. Choline, oddly enough, has stopped me from biting my fingernails and cuticles. I feel the effects of these within an hour. My exact doses were taken from thewayup.com. But I don't think I could tolerate as much as she recommended. I think these things can be potent. That fellow who is concerned with panic disorders (Shapiro? --something like that recommends acetyline precusors, which I think means choline. Anyway, everyone's mileage does vary. My pdoc, who encouraged this experimentation with the precursors, was not surprised that I responded to them so quickly and strongly, although he said not everyone does. Priscilla Slagle (thewayup.com) notes very quick reactions to these--within the hour. And the woman who wrote The Diet Cure (Julia Ross) notes the same quick response time as well. The 5HTP made me very sleepy. I actually got a prescription to tryptophan, but passed on it given my reaction to 5HTP.
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