Posted by McPac on September 21, 2003, at 22:28:22
In reply to Re: Amino acids/B vitamins » JLx, posted by Larry Hoover on September 21, 2003, at 7:04:20
Lar, you may want to wring my neck for my asking this again.....it has to do with Pfeiffer telling me NO folic acid supps......I've read so many studies citing folic acid as beneficial in IMPROVING folks' depression...yet Pfeiffer is concerned with folic acid building histamine levels, which is why they say I can't take it....question: Is it that you don't think that folic acid builds histamine OR is it that you don't think that high histamine causes depression/ocd? (Of course, I do have depression/ocd and very high histamine. The high histamine MAY contribute to the dep/ocd OR it may be purely coincidental...they think the high histamine may well have a lot to do with the dep/ocd...which is why they want to lower my histamine levels and have me AVOID folic acid...I can't remember why it was that you didn't agree with the folic acid thingy? (They say the same about niacin too). Also, I forgot, they do have me on methionine (an amino)....but they certainly aren't stressing building neurotransmitters via aminos like the site JLx posted about AND also like Carl Pfeiffer & William Walsh themselves write about..no, they don't have me on any tyrosine or phenylalanine, just the methionine, mainly for histamine reduction....I would have thought for sure that they'd have me on some worthwhile aminos for building neurotransmitters....take care Lar!
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