I'd like to get people's opinions on this post from a recent thread: "piracetam for beginners" from rec.drugs.smart
He (Michael McDonnough) sells a supp which contains piracetam, chocamine, taurine, 5-htp, DMAE, ALCAR, lecithin and 7-keto DHEA
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...I might add to someone new to racetams that you want to increase all
of the precursor elements for all the extra neurotransmitters you will
be making better use of. Take a Nootropic Complex that includes all of
the major nuerotransmitter precursors in it or buy them all seperate
and blend them yourself.
Michael McDonnough
Enhancement Technology Co.
http://www.enhancement-technology.com
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I replied:
Michael,
"Take...all of the major nuerotransmitter precursors"
OK well I've heard of the importance of a choline source but why the need for other precursors? One could take e.g.
tyrosine (but why?) as a dopamine precursor. What else?
Thanks.
Scott
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Michael McDonnough Sep 27, 7:39 pm show options New!
From: micha...@enhancement-technology.com (Michael McDonnough)
Date:27 Sep 2004 19:39:07 -0700
Local: Mon, Sep 27 2004 7:39 pm
My research team members all seemed to suffer a lack in one or more of
the other major neurotranimitters after prolonged use of Piracetam.
The most noticable was a drop in serotonin. We added 5-HTP tryptophan
to our regimen and these symptoms were gone in all of our team
members. We have since added Chocamine to our mix and this provides
plenty of phenylalanine and tyrosine and cannabanoid-related
compounds.
I have some first hand experience since I take the formula every day
and so do all of my friends and associates as well as my research team
members.
Having a full compliment of neurotransimtter precursor elements in our
formula makes the Piracetam work a lot better than with just some
choline added.
I think that Piracetam's well known ability to increase circulation of
brain fluid increases the synthesis and also the re-uptake of all of
the neurotransmitters not just acetylcholine.
I am sure we all suffered from a lack of serotonin long enough to
realize the change when we started supplimentation of 5-HTP and then
to balance this we started taking the Chocamine which has a nice mix
of precursor elements as well as chemicals that slow the deactivation
of the bodies natural cannabanoids and those that we take in with
Chocamine.
Here is a reference to a study of the relationship between serotonin
and noradrenaline levels in sleep in rodents.
http://www.pubmedcen...gi?artid=277838
Here is LEF on the subject:
http://www.lef.org/p...prtcl-089.shtml
Loss of this delicate balance is likely responsible for a lot of
people in depression conditions. If their serotonin is increased with
SSRI drugs and they are still not helped then likley they will be
given drugs to slow noradrenaline re-uptake.
I think to approach this from a food suppliment direction is a
superior method but is it not an expensive drug treatment that a MD
can prescribe. Some people do not know how good they can feel because
they have settled for a lot less because this is the best they could
hope to obtain.
Use our Nootropic and Transhuman search engine some time and you will
see a lot of the informtion behind my thinking on this. I put all of
the sites I used in my research into this subject in our own search
engine for quick access to the info. We spider the main Nootropic info
sites every week to keep it updated with the latest research.
http://www.neuro-fx....earch/search.pl
Feel free to add Nootropic info sites you do not find in the search
engine. I review all entries but if it is a non competition info site
and has important Nootropic research info I will add it to the
database and we will crawl it every week for you.
Michael McDonnough