Posted by Honore on June 29, 2007, at 15:22:10
In reply to Re: Nothing suggests Vitamin b destroys Nardil » Honore, posted by GWA on June 29, 2007, at 13:22:45
Right_ Nardil is a hydrazine. and according to many scientific articles, the following proposition is true.
. "Inasmuch as isonianid and OTHER HYDRAZINE DRUGS (MY CAPS) and foreign chemicals may produce a vitamin B6 deficiency in humans that can elicit seizures and lethal convulsions at high dose levels, these results suggest that the central nervous system toxicity produced by these agents might be more frequent and more severe in human slow acetylators."
This is also the point of the sentence that you quoted from the article you cited.You still haven't dealt with my main point, which is that the article calls Nardil a "vitamin b6 antagonist"-- it doesn't deal in any way with whether or to what extent anything else is true.
The proposition for which you cite that article, that vitamin b6 destroys nardil is not what the article reports, proves, or even implies.
I see some articles which suggest that vitamin b6 can, in some extreme instances, somewhat reduce the amount of isozianid or even phenelzine in the tissues. This is mostly with megadoses of vitamin b6, used in cases of neurotoxicity or overdose. I see nothing that suggests that this occurs in normal dietary, or even vitamin supplemental, doses.
So whatever the effect, which you might have had as a result of a pretty rare condition or type of metabolism of nardil vs. vitamin b6, it's as yet not at all appropriate to counsel other people to avoid vitamin b6 when they take nardil. This is particularly the case, because it is not uncommon for nardil to cause vitamin b6 deficiency. So the advice is not harmless but may cause harm. This is my concern.
You don't seem willing to deal with my main point, and if you won't, I can't do anything except let others know that it isn't at all indicated to stop taking vitamin b6 with Nardil, and that no harm is going to come from taking the two together.
I'm sorry you had the reaction you had. But the article you cite has nothing to say about why you had that reaction.
Honore
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