Posted by Chairman_MAO on May 5, 2005, at 19:06:40
In reply to Re: Social Phobia ... my new anxiolytic formula, posted by Phillipa on May 3, 2005, at 20:38:11
Heh, the company is not publicly traded ;)
I do not want to get anyone's hopes up excessively high, but like I said, we hope to have this out in around three months. It's going to include all "natural" ingredients such that it could be marketed as a "dietary supplement".
I'm glad that linkadge posted to this board that Fo-Ti root is an MAO-B inhibitor. Actually, the MAO-B inhibitng component of it is emodin, which I knew about, but did not know was in fo-ti. So now I likely have a more reliable MAO-B inhibitor than the one I was going to use, isatin. Isatin is the body's own MAO-B inhibitor. Levels of isatin are increased during stress, and it can cause anxiety (but then again, so can deprenyl et al). But I feel better using a compound such as emodin which is not endogenous in this circumstance, as I simply could not find enough literature about the other effects of isatin in man. So, you can thank him for that if I manage to get the "antidepressant" formula to market.
My other project besides OTC anxiolytic/antidepressant is an OTC product for mitigating opioid tolerance and dependence. This is not nearly as far along as the other one, though, but I'm passionate about it, and so is the guy that hired me, so hopefully we can get it to market eventually. I don't expect anything magical, but I'm fairly confident that I can get something out there that could afford those dependent upon opioid medication at least 25, probably 50% potentiation of their medication and significant attenuation of dependence. I don't want to go into details, as I'm a starving (well, not really, but you get the idea, heh) college student with mental illness (treatment-resistant dysthymia/"double depression" and moderate social phobia/agoraphobia), so I could use some funds from the profit of such an invention. I promise, though, that if either of these formulas don't end up making it into something commercial, I will release my work on this board so that everyone can benefit from it.
The quality and efficacy of most herbal/natural/otherwise OTC products on the market--at least the psychoactive ones--by and large is severely impoverished. I was tired of simply complaining about it and observing it, so I decided to take all of my self-taught knowledge (much of which I gained while sequestered in my room, depressed, simultaneously too afraid and strangely disinterested to go out and socialize, heh) and change that. Then, hopefully those who cannot get the right meds--which, IMHO, are many or even most people with mental illness--can have a worthy alternative to try.
Cheers!
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