Posted by raybakes on October 14, 2004, at 9:12:36
Hi everyone, went to an interesting conference at the weekend, ed mitchell, the astronaut was there, and skip atwater from the monroe institute was there talking about hemi sync.
I took a few supplements along as I didn't want to get brain fog and miss most of what they were saying - serrapeptase worked really well at keeping the blood going to my brain, but I was amazed at how well betaine worked at keeping me alert. Methylation was obviously helping with my brain energy, but why? I bought a biochemistry book in one of the breaks and it said that 70% of all methylation reactions in the body are used to form creatine - previously I've done really badly on creatine, but now I can take a small amount as long as I've taken plenty of folinic acid (not folate) sublingual B12, and betaine (and sometimes some methionine). Now if I take a little creatine, I stay alert. The book also mentioned that creatine can work to maintain correct acid/alkaline balance in cells too.
I've always wondered why methylation and SAMe are helpful in depression - is it because the brain is starving of energy? It's also interesting that creatine can reduce antibodies and raise glutathione, as glutathione needs a lot of energy to keep it activated.
http://hdlighthouse.org/see/diet/supplements/creatine/creatine14.htm
Ray
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