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[dademurphy]

I'm going to supplement some form of choline with the piracetam I'll be getting soon.
Is there a substantial difference between choline bitartrate and cdp-choline? (Enough
to warrant the price difference?)

Secondly I've seen choline bitartrate mixed with insitol is there any advantage to this?

Edited by dademurphy, 22 August 2003 - 02:35 AM.

[shpongled]

I'm going to supplement some form of choline with the piracetam I'll be getting soon. 
Is there a substantial difference between choline bitartrate and cdp-choline?  (Enough
to warrant the price difference?)

Secondly I've seen choline bitartrate mixed with insitol is there any advantage to this?

It depends on how much money you have. I don't really view CDP-choline as a source of choline but rather another nootropic. It is on the more expensive side even for nootropics though. And if you're going to use one or the other alpha-GPC is superior to CDP choline IMO.

I would assume that there is an advantage to using choline + inositol but I don't really know much about inositol. You may want to take a tablespoon or two of lecithin daily as well, it contains more bioavailable and longer-lasting choline as well as inositol.

David Tolson

[LifeMirage]

There are many choline donors to make Acetylcholine, they are rated on their ability to convert into Acetylcholine in the brain. From weakest to strongest (more or less):

PhosphatidylCholine
Choline (As bitartrate, Chloride, and Citrate)
DMAE
CDP-Choline
Alpha-GPC

I usually recommend CDP-Choline, due to the large amount of studies conducted on it.