Posted by Questionmark on May 25, 2004, at 1:16:26
In reply to Re: selegiline + dopamine increase ?, posted by elleff on May 24, 2004, at 20:38:20
Wow, i don't ever remember seeing that third abstract you (elleff) posted before. i didn't know you could actually get phenylethylamine in exogenous oral form. i knew that much phenylalanine will be converted to PEA if taken with selegeline, but we are able to get PEA by itself?? Or, at least, it exists anyway, since the researchers in that study used it. So why isn't it sold anywhere?! Would i be able to get it if i wanted??
i mean, seriously, how promising does that abstract make PEA sound? Can anybody answer some of the above questions?Oh, also, P.S.--
i hAVe read that one abstract before, showing the incredibly positive results of using selegeline and phenylalanine for depression. How amazing is that?!! What was it-- 80% responded? That's crAzy. i had mostly forgot about that study. But yeah-- why the heck does/did that study not have more impact than it does/did? Why aren't we using that combination more often??
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> > Here is the study. It was by Birkmayer. I don't know about Sabelli studies - can you post them?
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> Here they are:
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> http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=pubmed&dopt=Abstract&list_uids=1900832
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> http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=pubmed&dopt=Abstract&list_uids=8044048
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> http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=pubmed&dopt=Abstract&list_uids=9081552
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> By the way, there would be reason to suspect that adding supplemental chromium (the anti-dysthymic effects of which have been well demonstrated - see http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=pubmed&dopt=Abstract&list_uids=12559660) to oral phenylalanine supplementation should produce at least addative effects because chromium seems to work by increasing the insulin-mediated transport of aromatic and branch chain amino acids across the BBB (see http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=pubmed&dopt=Abstract&list_uids=14571351)
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> regards
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> elleff
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