Posted by desolationrower on March 6, 2009, at 1:13:32
In reply to Re: Survey: Does green tea lessen your symptoms? » desolationrower, posted by myco on March 5, 2009, at 13:06:52
hm, ok i found it
Green tea polyphenols: novel irreversible inhibitors of dopa decarboxylase.
Author:Bertoldi, M : Gonsalvi, M : Voltattorni, C B
Citation:Biochem-Biophys-Res-Commun. 2001 Jun 1; 284(1): 90-3anywya, its not going to function like carbadopa, since the point of that is to only inhibit it peripherially, thus sparing it for the brain, the catechins in tea i think all cross the bbb, and absent precurser supplementation it won't really matter
-d/r
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