Okay,
for my sister-in-law I am building this stack for her to recover after she got traumatic brain injury caused by an car accident.
While we had success with a smaller version of the stack, I (and she) would like to push it a bit further.
This was her stack
Life extension two-per-day multivitamin (Vit. D 2000 IU, 30 mg zinc, 200 mcg selenium, 150 mcg potassium iodine, 75 mg b-vitamins, 400 mcg folate, 300 mcg methylcobalamin, vit a, vit e, 3 mg boron)
Acetyl-l-carnitine 3x 500 mg
Highly refined fish oil 2 grams omega 3 per day
lithium orotate 5 mg
phosphatidylserine 100 mg (in the beginning two per day)
phosphatidylcholine 100 mg (in the beginning two per day)
Since she developed headaches late in her recovery I thought that she might have a choline deficiency due to the high amounts of ALCAR (she started with 3 grams a day). I stopped all her supplements and did a few trials with a choline sources. On CDP choline she got very tired and double vision so we quickly stopped that trial. Now she is on choline bitartrate which is tolerated well doesn't do anything for her headaches. Alpha GPC is still to try but now I think the headaches are not choline related.
We also did a trial with 2x10 mg noopept but she responded negatively (low energy, apathy) so after 2 weeks we stopped that experiment too.
Now I want to try a bit bigger stack, but is it too much?
I'd like to add:
lion's mane 3x 1 gram
Ashwagandha
Taurine 1 gram
Trimethylglycine 3 gram before bedtime (to increase HGH & IGF-1 and for methyl donors which are important for brain health)
Vitamin K2 complex (1mg k1, 1.3 mg k2 MK4, 100 mcg K2 MK7)
Q10 100 mg
Magnesium malate 140 mg (for headaches)
R-ALA 100 mg
N-ACETYL-CYSTEINE 600 mg for glutathione support
Up the dose of the lithium orotate to 10 mg.
Creatine 2 gr a day (she weighs about 60 kg or 120 lbs).
TLDR:
I am especially concerned if the ALCAR, ashwagandha, lion's mane won't produce too much of NGF and BDNF. She has a history of mild tourette syndrome and mild depression (the last one is gone somehow, that is her gain).
Please advice
Edited by Harmen, 13 January 2016 - 11:30 AM.