Posted by Larry Hoover on August 6, 2003, at 7:51:09
In reply to The Fantastic Four? L-PEA, NADH, C, and PLP, posted by DSCH on August 6, 2003, at 1:11:40
> From reading Mind Boosters, if dopamine and norepinephrine are what you need, then these would appear to be the supplements to take:
>
> 1) L-phenylalanine
> 2) Vitamin B3 *or* NADH
> 3) Vitamin C
> 4) Vitamin B6 *or* PLP (pyridoxal phosphate)
>
> Three Beer Effect posted a while back that L-PEA crosses the blood-brain barrier more easily than tyrosine. D-PEA doesn't seem to be doing anything here. NADH and PLP are active co-enzymes of Vitamns B3 and B6 repsectively.I hope I don't sound picky, but PEA is short for phenethylamine, rather than phenylalanine. The latter is usually PA, or Ph.
D-PA does not go on to form tyrosine, but because of that, it is totally available for conversion to PEA. This also has the effect of increasing the proportion of L-PA converting to tyrosine, due to competition for the alternate pathway.
Recent research has also shown that D-PA blocks the breakdown of enkephalins, substances which are our body's natural ligands for what we call opiate receptors (in other words, they're really enkephalin receptors, but they were "discovered" because of our use of opiates).
I think DLPA has more "bang for the buck" than tyrosine.
Lar
poster:Larry Hoover
thread:246486
URL: http://www.dr-bob.org/babble/20030802/msgs/248535.html