Posted by LOOPS on May 5, 2004, at 9:28:31
In reply to Re: OTC Stimulant Arcalion -- too good to be true? » LOOPS, posted by samplemethod on May 5, 2004, at 7:44:23
> how did it go LOOPS?
Hiya -
The last week has been completely mental to say the least.
The l-glutamine started to have the OPPOSITE effect on me 3 days in (more hyped up), so I stopped taking this.
Then the day before yesterday my much-awaited l-tryptophan arrived through the post.
Previously to this, I'd tried taking some True Calm tablet which contains taurine, and found it DID calm me down, but I didn't feel that great (still a bit anxious - knot in my stomach feeling etc).
So the night before last, I took 600mg tryptophan with some orange juice. Gradually over the next hour began to come back to earth again, and not in a 'down' way.
Yesterday I took 3 doses of 600mg, and had the calmest, mellowest day I've had in a couple of years. It DID NOT even make me sleepy, which was a worry for me. I had a good game of tennis, which shows it does not necessarily lead to lack of motivation etc, which happened with the 5-htp.
Well it's only day 3 today, so we shall see.
By the way I found an excellent article on Tryptophan by James South which really explains how it all works. Apparently you want to reduce cortisol whilst taking l-tryptophan, or some enzyme in the liver stops tryptophan being metabolized (I think). So the ALC is a great adjunct for tryptophan as it reduces cortisol reactions.
http://www.antiaging-systems.com/extract/ltrypt.htm;
This confirms that I have been doing the right thing taking the B3 with the tryptophan.
By the way an unexpected benefit was regarding my drinking problem. Last night I had very little incentive to go grab a beer and drink. This will be a double whammy as booze actually exacerbates serotonin-deficit syndrome. However I am addicted. If I can reduce my alchohol intake even further by using tryptophan supplementation, I might have hit on the answer(some of it).
I'll let you know if this regime continues to work or if not...
Loops
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