Posted by DSCH on November 11, 2003, at 11:20:41
In reply to Re: DMAE, choline, TMG » DSCH, posted by JLx on November 11, 2003, at 7:43:40
> I wonder what the deal is with choline too, if they're right or wrong on that one. What do you think? I was taking a choline/inositol combo, and also taking additional lecithin. I stopped taking both recently per that recommendation but am not sure if I feel an impact.
As I consume virtually no eggs and milk, I have started taking lecithin which has both phosphatidylcholine and phosphatidylinositol. I started fish oil at the same time. I noticed a modest improvement from this in visual clarity and greater tendency to feel "grounded" in the present objective/subjective outer reality. Having read a little about the dissociative drugs (DXM/DXO, Ketamine) I feel that before all this, I was "naturally" dissociated to some degree!
Regarding inositol: I took it for a number of weeks in August. I had what I first believed to be a quite strange reaction (but in the end, postive) to the first dose, however I think that experience was more likely a result of the "Sacksian" cumulative tinkering I had been doing on myself up to that point (I would recommend seeing the deNero/Williams movie and getting the book "Awakenings"). The parallel was erie enough for me to worry that I would run into an analgous predicament to his post-encephalitic patients on L-DOPA, but fortunately most of those concerns of mine have faded in the months since then as things stabilized.
For a number of weeks there I felt like the neurochemical equivalent to the semi-transparent model of the human body! :-/ ;-)
> > I will again state that in my experience, the most dramatic thing that kicked TMG "on" was taking supplementary magnesium.
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> I feel as if I have a whole new baseline for physical reactions since I've been taking magnesium. I was tempted to say, "a whole new body"...wouldn't that be nice? ;)
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> You're doing ok on TMG? And no longer any amino acids, I believe you said on another thread. I couldn't understand why you thought TMG would be so helpful until I really tried to sort out all that methyl info.
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> I've been really helped by the tyrosine, however, and am leery of cutting it out altogether though I have cut it down from my original dose.Yes, although I had great successes with DLPA, protein powder drinks, and L-tyrosine (at various times), they were "brittle" and I was dismayed at finding it necessary to treat myself at such short intervals. I also found it unconvincing that amino acid metabolism was my root problem. So I eventually was brought around to reconsider methylation, which I had discounted due to a less than impressive response to TMG (pre-Mg).
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