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[Believer]

I have the normal GAD (glutamate to gaba) enzyme defect causing elevated glutamate.

I wake up with an itch all over my body, irritability, stress and enhanced physical pain and emotional pain. With the itch I also get clumsiness, brain fog, poor focus and a whole host of other issues.

 

I started taking vitamin E to protect my brain against excitoxicity from the elevated glutamate, which vitamin E is known to be good at. I take it with vitamin C

 

But it seems to worsen my clumsiness sometimes???

 

Does vitamin E increase or recycle glutamate or something?

[brosci]

I've had good results with Tocotrienol (with no alpha-tocopherol). I'm not sure if it competes in any way with regular E. I've read good things, but haven't seen alpha-tocotrienol available as a standalone supplement.