Posted by raybakes on October 5, 2004, at 4:57:51
In reply to Re: Very IRRITABLE!!! Help! » raybakes, posted by JLx on October 4, 2004, at 11:14:08
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> Hmm...hadn't heard that about alcohol or mercury specifically. Perhaps that's one reason why alcohol is so often involved in depression, and suicide.one article said that after drinking alcohol, the brain compensates for the calming efect of alcohol by making more glutamate receptors, and maybe the irritability of a hangover is excessive calcium entering neurons?
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> Have you read Blaylock's "Excitotoxins"?No but might have to read it! James Souths article was really good...thanks!
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> When some people feel so good after taking taurine, perhaps it is because it is counteracting some of these excitoxins?I think it is counteracting excitotoxins - I know it opposes the excitotoxicity of homocysteine, but it also works to support calcium ATPase, the pump that pumps calcium out the cell. ATPase is magnesium dependent, the NMDA glutamate receptor is stabilsed by magnesium, and glutamate is converted to GABA (inhibitory) in a magnesium dependent process.....so magnesium is very important!
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> I find I feel better the better I eat and the more things I avoid like aspartame or even food dyes, but it's hard to do.
>It is hard, but the better I feel, the easier it becomes - when I feel bad, I sometimes think 'i can't feel any worse, so what the hell!'
Ray
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