Posted by blueberry on April 5, 2006, at 20:02:24
In reply to L-Theanine for Anxiety, posted by verne on March 28, 2006, at 9:15:07
I found decaffeinated green tea to be calming as I had hoped. Thinking it was the theanine in it, I tried theanine by itself. Yikes. Almost had a panic attack. It scared me.
Theanine converts to gaba, but also some of it to dopamine. I would imagine that with different people, the conversion process varies. For me, it felt like a lot of dopamine, and not the feel-good kind, but the intense anxiety kind. I didn't feel any gaba effects at all.
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