Posted by tealady on November 28, 2003, at 13:10:35
In reply to Re: back on tyrosine: » Francesco , posted by JLx on November 28, 2003, at 7:24:13
> > Hi JLx. My ask you how much tyrosine do you take per day ? Do you take something else ? I'm new to the suplement world and I'm a bit overwhelmed by all this information. It seems like there's a thousand things to try !
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> I know what you mean. :) I get intimidated by how much it seems I "need to know" sometimes, but find this board enormously helpful.me 2
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> I take 500 mg tyrosine in the morning on an empty stomach regularly, but I'm also experimenting with an additional 500 mg some days. I started out at 500, went up to 1,000 and even 1,500 for a short time. (I've only been at this for about 10 weeks now.) I've also added phenylalanine sometimes too, or in place of, to see if it felt different.I take 375mg in the morning and rest of 500mg capsule of tyrosine about noon...actually just woke up at 5am and took some for the tooth pain..working now (6am).
On some days I'll take 500mg in the morning and 500mg at noon..if I'm going thru a hypo period
The day I tried 2000mg, it was pretty intense..hard to describe.. How did you feel on 1500mg?
I've got some phenylanine, but haven't really tried it as yet.>
> I haven't come to any firm conclusions from all that experimentation so far except that 500 mg of tyrosine a day is a "given". I take it with P-5-P that includes a bit of magnesium. I like this formula better than the previous brand I bought that just had P-5-P.What brand is that you use. I have to get my P5P from the US...not on the Aussie list, but I'm allowed to import it. Won't be doing another order for a while but good to hear suggestions.
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> I take lots of other stuff too, like 9 gm of fish oil for my brain. Selenium to counteract mercury leakage from tooth fillings. Magnesium so that everything in my body/brain works better. Boron for my bones and also because it may increase estrogen a bit. Alpha lipoic acid as an antioxidant. DHEA because I'm getting old. ;)DHEA I found 20mg too much(cortisol), so now trying 10mg. I read somewhere that 10mg or even 5mg is enough for most females...there doesn't seem to be much info on DHEA, and even less on 7keto-DHEA. I haven't tried the 7-keto as yet.
In Oz, we have to get DHEA on doc's script.Vit. C, E, B vitamins, including B 12 as methylcobalamin, as antioxidants, for stress, and for "general purposes". And TMG for the methylation process. I find that TMG makes me feel more "smoothed out" than I felt on just the tyrosine alone but I'm in the process of experimenting with how much of that to take too. I probably take some other things too that I can't recall right now, but those are the essentials.
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> In general, all this together with a no sugar, no diary, no grains, low carb diet, has helped enormously.
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> I appreciate your comments about your own experimentation, by the way. I'm generally not that sensitive when I take something or the effects are just not that noticeable, except over time when it's easy to lose sight of the whole picture, so something like your observation that tyrosine made you personality more "hard" was very helpful.
I find it does make me a bit more agressive or assertive..some find it makes them too agressive.
So if I look like I'm getting too aggressive you all have to jump on me, OK?
I think I needed to be a bit more aggressive..it's helping get some medical tests done etc., it probably looks like I need some Betaine..but I'll leave that for a while...next thing to try, I think.I was feeling that too but couldn't put my finger on it. I feel more softened since I've added the TMG. (I think probably the TMG leveled off the dopamine/serotonin balance.)
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Jan
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