Posted by karaS on October 16, 2004, at 0:50:05
In reply to Re: Supplements for brain fog? » karaS, posted by raybakes on October 11, 2004, at 8:46:22
> > Decreasing estrogen isn't exactly helping my dopamine problems. Boosting dopamine can't help either because my system won't allow for it. Not a hopeful picture...
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> Hi Kara,> The other article talked about tryptophan excess altering the sensitivity of the dopamine receptors - so maybe something that antagonizes dopamine, may make it's receptors overly sensitive, as a compensation? what do you think?
> "The greater prolactin response to l-tryptophan infusion in depressed subjects may be the result of an increase in dopamine receptor sensitivity, secondary to reduced dopamine levels."
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> Another abstract made a mention of genetic errors in the dopamine receptor too...
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> Sorry, don't have any straight answers!
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> Ray
>Ray,
I keep hearing and reading lately about serotonergics and their antagonistic effect on dopamine via the receptors. I'm not going to take any tryptophan or 5-htp even for sleep. Maybe my idea to start on Cymbalta isn't such a good one either. Even though it's balanced with NE, maybe I shouldn't be taking anything with serotonin activity at all.
Don't apologize for not having the answer. No one does yet. It doesn't exist.
Thanks as always for your imput,
Kara
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