Posted by Pfinstegg on November 22, 2002, at 18:27:40
In reply to Re: In addition to fish oil... , posted by Larry Hoover on November 22, 2002, at 17:14:36
I don't think you need to worry at all about being too technical or overwhelming people; the numerous, rapid and enthusiastic responses to your posts must be occurring because so many of us simply cannot get this kind of information from our physicians- whether psychiatrists, endocrinologists, internists or neurologists- they just don't know very much about human metabolism, or what food and vitamins to take to help our stressed brains function, maybe not normally, but closer to it.
Your most recent post gave me some valuable information; I didn't know that folate actually did have a positive influence on neurotransmitters, nor did I know that B12 favored the transformation of homocysteine into methionine, and thus into the SAM-e pathway. Another thing new to me: that magnesium has an inhibitory effect on the NMDA/glutamate receptors. That's not a transmitter group which is talked about very much here, but I have read that over-excitation of that pathway is one of the cascade effects of HPA axis dysregulation, so it makes a lot of sense to take a really adequate amount of magnesium. Of course, in checking my (very expensive) multivitamin, I found that it has magnesium OXIDE, and only 250 mg.at that. I intend to try the citrate up to the levels you suggested.
I hope you will keep posting- and, for sure, thank you! If I keep on enhancing my nutrition the way you are suggesting, perhaps I won't have to keep that December 30th date with the TMS machine at Emory! Just kidding- my HPA axis is so dysregulated that I need all the help I can get! But, that aside, what you have taught me is invaluable. Thank you, Larry.
Pfinstegg
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