Posted by BarbaraCat on May 18, 2004, at 15:45:53
In reply to Stuff, posted by LOOPS on May 17, 2004, at 20:13:14
> I've had excellent results with the Solgar brand - plus, ok, this is a bit superficial, but the bottles look really nice!
**Solgar it will be for me then. Other people like it alot and, call me silly but I think nice bottles are important!
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> It seems estrogen INHIBITS taurine being formed in the liver.**There was something I'd heard about problems down the line with taking oral estrogen and progesterone, in fact, any of the sex hormones, because of this liver thing. I take a cream with estrogen/progesterone, etc. made by compounding pharmacy which supposedly helps this but you never know.
>>There is also some debate about whether we need taurine from animal products, despite being able to create it ourselves from other aminos.
**So, does it say that you either need animal products OR taurine if you're not getting animal products? Or is it saying that you need extra taurine even if you are eating meat?
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> Also, people with eczema are often deficient in taurine. Well that would be me then. Which is ironic, as the reason I went *mostly* vegan was to overcome this very problem.**Do you drink alot of water? I've been bumping into one source after another, books, articles, etc., on the importance of drinking 1/2 our weight in ounces of pure water daily. There's a book "Your body's many cries for water" which makes a very convincing case. Eczema is mentioned. His website is www.watercure.com. It's worth a try. None of us seems to get enough water. It's also important to add a little sea salt as well.
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> I had a look at that website Doctoryourself, and it was very interesting, especially the article about treating alchoholism with megavitamins. Unfortunately, I don't react too well to l-glutamine (makes me irritable, although this is not ALWAYS the case).**Yes, I don't react well to l-glutamine either. It's an excitatory amino acid I don't do well on those. Since I've been drinking all that water (and pissing like a racehorse!) I don't get nearly the craving for alcohol like I used to. Or, if I want to have a glass of my beloved chardonnay or else go ballistic, I promise myself an equal amount of water before each glass. It really works in curbing things and I don't feel like warmed over crap the next day either since hangovers are largely dehydration.
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