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Re: a remarkable effect of Klonopin, green tea ext

Posted by scott-d-o on December 16, 2003, at 21:39:21

In reply to Re: a remarkable effect of Klonopin, posted by linkadge on December 15, 2003, at 13:20:40

> You're probably right. Gaba neurotransmission has not been studied enough in my opinion (at least findings not as publicies as with serotonin research). Anyhow, Green tea has a fairly potent effect on increasing Gaba, as well as increasing norepinephrine. A few of my friends with social phobia have found great sucess with using the extracts. (By no means stop taking clonazepam if it is working).
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> The main thing I am trying to help others understand is that feelings of insecurity about taking to people are not universal. Sometimes when people think that "oh everybody feels this way" it creates a barrier to their improvement.
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> Different anxieties must be processed in entirely different areas of the brain.
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> Good Luck
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> Linkadge
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Be careful with the tea extracts. The study below shows that these extracts have been shown to have a proconvulsive effect in mice and don't increase GABA. The one ingredient in green tea that might actually increase GABA is called L-Theanine, however, it is under patent in the US and is *expensive*.

Proconvulsive effect of tea (Camellia sinensis) in mice.

Gomes A, Das M, Vedasiromoni JR, Ganguly DK.

Division of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics, Indian Institute of Chemical Biology, 4, Raja S. C. Mullick Road, Calcutta - 700032, India.

Investigations were carried out to evaluate the effect of acute and chronic administration of both black and green tea on three models of experimentally induced convulsions in mice. Tea extract (both black and green) significantly accelerated the onset of convulsion, increased the duration of convulsion and mortality in mice. Since both the extracts failed to alter the GABA level in brain, based on the earlier report that both black and green tea might act on Ca(2+) channels, it can be suggested that the observed proconvulsive effect of tea is not mediated through GABA but through Ca(2+) channels. Copyright-Copyright 1999 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

PMID: 10441775 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]


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