Posted by Tooooja on July 9, 2004, at 4:30:18
Hi everyone,
I've been wrestling with feelings of depression for the last ten years, and I tried a lot of things during this time, non of which helped very much.
Recently I embarked on fitness regime, as I had been reading a lot about the benefits of exercise to the way you feel. It has been helping. with my renewed interest in fitness I spent some time reading bodybuilding websites and heard about whey protein as a very good source of protein for building muscles. I decided to get some, and I noticed the very first time I took it about an hour after drinking it down that a felt a LOT calmer, more centred, relaxed and even a little jovial. Of all the experiences I've had with different meds and supplements, this is the one thing that stands out as the thing that has really helped. Once I was sure that it was the whey that was having this effect, I thought I'd cracked it at last, problems solved, supplement with a little whey each day. This is what I was doing, I took it every day for about a month, and I was training regularly and eating my normal diet too. After the month I started to come down with a cold, slightly unusual because it is summer at the moment and I always keep myself warm. I kept on taking the whey and my cold got worse, and I ended up with a very sore throat, sneezing all the time, and I noticed the skin on my feet started drying and cracking and my hands began doing the same. So sensibly I stopped the whey, for a week, and started to get better. My sore throat went and my cold got a lot better. I decided to try the whey again just to see if it was really that, after two days of supplementing my sore throat was back. What I am wondering is, has anyone else out there had any experience with whey, anything like this happened to them, and is there any way around it?? I have scoured the web to try and find more info. I did find some about whey helping depression on the Life Extension Foundation website and various other places, and they made no mention of the effects I experienced. They attribute the anti-depressant effect to the alpha-lactalbumin fraction of the whey which has a high l-tryptophan content. They also say it's good for your immune system because it is high in Glutamine, it seemed to weaken my immune system though!? Please feel free to respond and ask me more questions if you like.
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