Posted by inanimate peanut on January 3, 2010, at 17:08:09
Surely this one is safe, right? It's just an amino acid for gosh sake. Has anyone had any good results from supplementing with tyrosine? I have 2 protein shakes per day that have tyrosine in them but apparently tyrosine has to complete with other amino acids to be transported across the blood-brain barrier, so I thought supplementing it alone would give it an advantage. This is why supplementing with phenylalanine (or other amino acids) might make your dopamine problem worse, since (even though some phenylalanine is converted to tyrosine), the two compete for transport across the blood-brain barrier. What do you think?
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