Posted by DSCH on November 13, 2003, at 2:12:43
In reply to Re: What's up? » DSCH, posted by Francesco on November 11, 2003, at 5:32:58
Francesco,
Some thoughts that came to me while my mind wandered tonight instead of shuting down and going to sleep...
You appear to have dramatic responses to coffee/espresso (mostly negative) and gingko (mostly positive). I am wondering if this might be a sign of borderline insufficency in perfusion in areas of your brain, particularly the pre-frontal cortex, which would be aggravated by caffiene (a vasoconstrictor) and helped by gingko (a vasodilator).
I think this might be an explanation for the ADD symptoms you have. You've said before that something more like OCD is what you had from early childhood on. When did you notice ADD coming on and the OCD going away? This is a wild-a** guess on my part, but perhaps a perfusion problem interferes with your OCD-like problem, and cancels it out at the "price" of giving you ADD. When you do something that boosts brain perfusion, the ADD goes away but the "in-built" problem you have is revealed again.
What do you think? If this guessing is correct, the best thing (maybe) would be to take gingko (probably a bit less than that first time around!) ;-) and then find something to take on the problems that are remaining, which sound serotonergic, and thus maybe tryptophan would fit.
I don't quite understand how one would go about finding a balance between tryptophan or 5-HTP and tyrosine given that tyrosine beats out tryptophan and the LNAAT can be easily saturated (IIRC). Meanwhile, I don't think gingko would interfere with tryptophan at all.
Anyway, just some things that were bouncing around my head in lieu of sleep. YMMV. ;-)
Whatever else, make sure you are getting some B3 and magnesium. :-)
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