Posted by circusboy on February 11, 2007, at 22:14:30
In reply to Re: Gotu Kola - MAOI?, posted by linkadge on February 10, 2007, at 22:33:26
> So it does have effect on monoamines, but also on their metabolite levels? I wonder what the mechanism is.
>I wish I knew, too. I haven't run across any studies that went too far beyond asking various forms of the question, "Hey, they use Gotu Kola in Ayurvedic medicine for this... are they really on to something?"
And you're right; I wasn't thinking too hard about that first study re MAOI activity. I don't know enough about MAOIs to know whether, by some mechanism, they (paradoxically?) increase monoamine metabolites. So that study might not be evidence of MAOI activity after all. Still, fascinating stuff.
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