Posted by raybakes on October 21, 2004, at 14:03:32
In reply to Re: Supplements for brain fog? » raybakes, posted by Simus on October 21, 2004, at 9:48:36
> Something you mentioned in your post to me that I find interesting was "the body can make PEA from phenylalanine, via phenylalanine decarboxylase (magnesium + p5p)". Oddly enough, I was very deficient in both magnesium and B6 and I believe I must still be to some degree (I have symptoms again within a day or two of missing my supplements).
the decarboxylase enzymes are elsewhere too...glutamate to GABA is via a carboxylase enzyme
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> I am going to go out on a limb and ask you a question that may seem really dumb to you. Right now I am digging through my memory archives to place where I have heard "phenylalanine" a lot in the past. Is that in over-the-counter diet pills? (Sorry if I am way off.)No, it's not dumb!! it is in some diet supplements, but it's also DLPA - ie. l-phenylalaine and d-phenylalaine.
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> You mentioned viruses also. Whenever I run a low-grade fever I have mental symptoms (depression, anxiety, brain fog...). I am going through that right now in fact. I just associated the mental symptoms with the fever and not so much with the cause of the fever. Now I am rethinking things... The first time I noticed this connection was when I had a severe case of mono 25 years ago (now 43). Do you think that this same virus could remain dormant in my body for this long and pop up every so often causing ugly mental symptoms? Hmmm...
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The autism researchers have done a lot of work with how viruses affect the immune and nervous system - I've seen mononucleosis also called CMV, can you call what you had, CMV...anyway, here's a good article on viruses and autism...and yes they can lay dormant, until we get low!
http://members.jorsm.com/~binstock/hhv6.htm
Ray
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