Posted by Lao Tzu on July 19, 2010, at 13:56:32
In reply to Re: Article on Amino Acids etc Effectiveness for Dep., posted by Lao Tzu on July 16, 2010, at 12:05:14
I give up on amino acids. They just don't seem to work for me anymore. They just wind up complicating the depression, usually making my mood worse rather than better. My latest trial with taurine has failed. I should have known because I read a couple sources that claimed that medication serves to lower taurine levels in the brain, which are high in depression prior to the meds. So having high taurine levels is not necessarily therapeutic. Dumping amino acids into your body is not necessarily going to help with depression unless, I suppose, you are deficient due to malabsorption problems. You actually should get enough amino acids from your diet if it is well-balanced. I've discovered that vitamins and minerals in the right dosages for the individual seem to be more consistently beneficial for depression than the amino acids unless, of course, you have a malabsorption problem or are vegetarian.
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