Posted by Larry Hoover on May 30, 2003, at 16:34:46
In reply to Larry, Re: zinc, too, posted by McPac on May 29, 2003, at 21:02:52
> "I know I don't have good zinc metabolism, as my taste and smell diminish drastically unless I routinely supllement with zinc".
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> Zinc deficiency can cause depression also.Oh, fer sure. It's just that I have a convenient "zinc indicator" in my taste buds. Zinc is folded into the tips of the sensory molecules in the mouth and nose. If your body is running short on zinc, they're kind of a sacrificial lamb, one of the first zinc-dependent processes to get cut back. The life span of your taste buds/olfactory receptors is about two weeks, so there's a bit of a lag both going and coming.
> With your allergy problems, have you ever set out to reduce your histamine levels? (Lar, by the way, after high histamine levels were reduced significantly, shouldn't allergic-type problems greatly diminish?)
I think there's a big difference between CNS histamine and peripheral histamine, just as there's a difference between CNS serotonin and peripheral serotonin. Same chemical, vastly different effects.
Some of the things I'm doing are likely to downregulate both systems, but I think that they more generally require different strategies altogether.
Lar
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