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Does this mean I need Dopamine or have excess?

Posted by Lilah on March 19, 2012, at 8:33:08

I'm new here but feel like I know many of you from many years of lurking!

Please help me to figure something out. I am rather low motivation, a bit apathetic - but not too extreme. I know I'm missing something - part of my brain doesn't feel alive.

I have experimented with NADH - 2.5 mg. It makes me feel so alive the first day I take it! It is like I can think and am interested in things. The next day I take it again and feel the same. By the third day, it is like I'm craving even more of it! It is almost like a withdrawal effect. I am scared of getting to the point of having too much and getting irritable (I read Larry Hoover and Ron Hill's posts about irritability in the past while using NADH when they reached the point of needing to back off). By the third day I usually take less to keep from building tolerance or I skip it completely. Either way - particularly if I skip it - I am irritable and craving it and depressed! Do you guys think that this means I need more of it or that it doesn't work for me? Even taking Ginkgo I have had the same reaction - felt very alive and clear headed at first then almost craving when I didn't take it. So bizarre - after just two days of use it is like I'm hooked. I'm scared to take it a third day because I might really get crazy!

History - low dopamine in my family - mother has Parkinson's and even in earlier years she had apathy and low motivation. I can tend to obsess and be in low moods.

Please let me know your thoughts. I have learned so much from all of you and probably should have thanked you guys long before this!

 

Re: Does this mean I need Dopamine or have excess? » Lilah

Posted by Phillipa on March 19, 2012, at 10:36:16

In reply to Does this mean I need Dopamine or have excess?, posted by Lilah on March 19, 2012, at 8:33:08

I'm not sure that low dopamine in the brain is Parkinson's? I will have to google it. And glad you postsed. Phillipa

 

Re: Does this mean I need Dopamine or have excess?

Posted by Phillipa on March 19, 2012, at 12:32:57

In reply to Re: Does this mean I need Dopamine or have excess? » Lilah, posted by Phillipa on March 19, 2012, at 10:36:16

I take it mean it's the disease itself that causes the depletion of dopamine so without the disease I don't take it mean adding dopamine will help. Maybe someone else interprets it differently. Phillipa

http://www.lef.org/protocols/neurological/parkinsons_disease_01.htm

 

Re: Does this mean I need Dopamine or have excess?

Posted by rene5150 on March 19, 2012, at 20:07:37

In reply to Does this mean I need Dopamine or have excess?, posted by Lilah on March 19, 2012, at 8:33:08

I think its not a good idea to take this drug. sounds like you get sort of an addictave behaviour on it,doesent seem healthy. Mabye you have ADD and may benefit from a stimulant like ritilan or adderall. good luck, talk to your doc and let us know..


 

Re: Does this mean I need Dopamine or have excess? » Lilah

Posted by sigismund on March 20, 2012, at 0:26:32

In reply to Does this mean I need Dopamine or have excess?, posted by Lilah on March 19, 2012, at 8:33:08

I kind of noticed NADH but not as much as you have.

Why can you not take a dose and stick with it?

It sounds like it suits you.

 

Re: Does this mean I need Dopamine or have excess?

Posted by Oioioi123 on March 25, 2012, at 8:40:52

In reply to Does this mean I need Dopamine or have excess?, posted by Lilah on March 19, 2012, at 8:33:08

Sorry for my ignorance, I tried googling but can't find out what NADH?

 

Re: Does this mean I need Dopamine or have excess?

Posted by sigismund on March 25, 2012, at 15:05:39

In reply to Re: Does this mean I need Dopamine or have excess?, posted by Oioioi123 on March 25, 2012, at 8:40:52

It might be in here..........

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NADH_dehydrogenase

 

Re: Does this mean I need Dopamine or have excess?

Posted by Oioioi123 on March 25, 2012, at 15:13:58

In reply to Re: Does this mean I need Dopamine or have excess?, posted by sigismund on March 25, 2012, at 15:05:39

> It might be in here..........
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NADH_dehydrogenase

I saw that but wasn't sure if that was what was being talked about, it was really just a bunch of jargon to me. Has something to do with coq10? Sorry, don't worry about it, I just don't really understand what the compound is

 

Re: Does this mean I need Dopamine or have excess?

Posted by sigismund on March 25, 2012, at 17:36:16

In reply to Re: Does this mean I need Dopamine or have excess?, posted by Oioioi123 on March 25, 2012, at 15:13:58

Somehow or other it must be involved in the production of dopamine.

 

Re: Does this mean I need Dopamine or have excess? » Oioioi123

Posted by phidippus on April 3, 2012, at 18:48:52

In reply to Re: Does this mean I need Dopamine or have excess?, posted by Oioioi123 on March 25, 2012, at 8:40:52

NADH dehydrogenase (EC 1.6.5.3) (also referred to as NADH:ubiquinone reductase or Complex I) is an enzyme located in the inner mitochondrial membrane that catalyzes the transfer of electrons from NADH to coenzyme Q (CoQ). It is one of the "entry enzyme" of oxidative phosphorylation in the mitochondria

?Eric


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