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Amino acid therapy... or Mucuna pruriens?

Posted by circusboy on November 26, 2006, at 16:59:46

I don't want to hijack Jimmyboy's thread, even if it seemed like a logical place to bring this up. Especially if we're talking NE/DA precursors...

Since reading sregan's mention of Mucuna from a few hours ago (in aeon's anandamide thread), I've been reading old posts on the stuff and kicking myself for placing my massive iHerb order *yesterday* instead of today. :) Anyway, Mucuna apparently contains a fair bit of l-dopa. Even though that's only one step closer to DA than tyrosine...
http://www.rpi.edu/dept/bcbp/molbiochem/BiochSci/sbello/new_page_2.htm
(search in page for "tyrosine to norepinephrine")
...that head start is clearly clinically significant. In Parkinson's, of course, but also from reports on p-babble. So sregan, etc.: please keep us updated! BarbaraCat's updates seemed to drop off after a while, so I'm not sure if she eventually abandoned the Mucuna, and if so, why.

-cb
a postscript: also, sregan... did you ever start that trial of SAMe?
a post-postscript: i just took 5mg Ritalin, and it seems to be hitting me extra-hard. I hope you'll excuse me for any excessive insistence/enthusiasm. :)


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