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Posted by jparsell82 on November 3, 2003, at 19:30:19
Anyone tried specifically magnesium glycinate? I was reading in "Smart Drugs II" and there's a drug called Milacemide which enhances learning and long-term potentiation of memory. Milacemide readily crosses the blood-brain barrier and is converted into glycinamide and then to glycine by Mao-B. It says glycine is an excitatory amino acid & neurotransmitter that enhances NMDA activity and that can't cross the blood-brain barrier itself. But, another way of raising your glycine levels stated at the end of the chapter is magnesium glycinate. Anyone tried this form of magnesium? I wonder what kind of dosage would be good?
Posted by Ron Jones on November 3, 2003, at 21:20:34
In reply to Magnesium Glycinate for memory... possibly add?, posted by jparsell82 on November 3, 2003, at 19:30:19
George Eby used it to achive a 100% recovery from mania.Glycine activates the nmda receptor and also inhibits it. mag is the coenzyme for 300 enzymes.It restores calcium balance.
Posted by JLx on November 4, 2003, at 17:41:18
In reply to Magnesium Glycinate for memory... possibly add?, posted by jparsell82 on November 3, 2003, at 19:30:19
> Anyone tried specifically magnesium glycinate?
I have and I like it. It's a good, absorbable source of magnesium. I recommend Carlson's brand. It used to be the source that George Eby recommended, and is the one that he credits recovery from bipolar depression from on his site: http://www.coldcure.com/html/dep.html
I quite often take glycine itself separately too. Read about it in "Depression Free Naturally". It's kind of sweet, so you can use it a bit like a sweetener. I put it on my strawberries last summer, for instance. Joan Matthews Larson in that book mentioned that it's particularly relaxing to the spine, so I take it before bed.
>I was reading in "Smart Drugs II" and there's a drug called Milacemide which enhances learning and long-term potentiation of memory. Milacemide readily crosses the blood-brain barrier and is converted into glycinamide and then to glycine by Mao-B. It says glycine is an excitatory amino acid & neurotransmitter that enhances NMDA activity and that can't cross the blood-brain barrier itself. But, another way of raising your glycine levels stated at the end of the chapter is magnesium glycinate. Anyone tried this form of magnesium? I wonder what kind of dosage would be good?
I've always heard that it's a calming neurotransmitter. See this description, for instance: http://www.springboard4health.com/notebook/proteins_glycine.html
You can buy magnesium glycine in bulk at Beyond A Century, so that suggests that the body builders are taking it. (I ordered from their site for the first time recently, it's a "no frills" place, hence the low prices on some things; I found them prompt and reliable.)
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