Posted by TSA West on March 12, 2002, at 16:38:03
In reply to need some advice, posted by borderliner21 on March 12, 2002, at 12:33:23
The only over-the-counter remedy for bipolar disorder I can think of is some dietary inostol, available at most health food stores, mostly as a combination of choline and inositol. Inositol levels are lower in bipolars for some strange reason:
"Inositol and its synthetic enzyme, inositol monophosphatase, were measured in postmortem brain samples of 10 suicide victims, eight patients with bipolar affective disorder, and 10 normal comparison subjects.
Results : The frontal cortex inositol levels of the suicide victims and the patients with bipolar disorder were significantly less than those of the normal comparison group. No differences in cerebellum or occipital cortex inositol levels were found among the three groups. The groups also showed no differences in inositol monophosphatase activity in any brain area.
Conclusions: These results could suggest a deficiency of second messenger precursor in patients with bipolar disorder and suicide victims."
--American Journal of Psychiatry
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