Posted by blueberry1 on December 20, 2006, at 17:44:28
In reply to Taurine: Dosage, tolerance?, posted by saturn on December 19, 2006, at 14:41:06
I tried taurine a few times last year. I don't remember what dose, but it was low. I think I broke tablets into halves. At that low of a dose I did not get a powerful calming that I was hoping for, but I did get a nice surprise in that it improved my mood somehow. It's almost as if it somehow makes everything else going on in your brain work better. I don't know how to describe it.
So many things worsen my depression. In my notes my comments about taurine were, "At no time did taurine worsen my mood".
After a week of using it I did feel more depressed. But I cannot point the finger at taurine. I was juggling all kinds of things around and trying something new almost on a daily basis and never sticking to anything. Even my taurine doses were irregular in size and timing.
I will probably revisit taurine since you brought it up. Though I am not in good shape right now, I am fairly stable and not changing a bunch of things. So this would be a good time to take another look.
One of the things I used taurine for was to cut back on the nervousness that tyrosine gave me after tyrosine wore off. Taurine not only got rid of that nervousness, but it also lifted my mood enough to notice.
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