Posted by myco on April 2, 2009, at 17:48:56
In reply to Re: Is it ok to just take 5 htp once daily?, posted by qbsbrown on April 2, 2009, at 16:47:35
Medical studies....remember this sup is helpful for parkinsons also eh...studies show just as good as rx l-lopa....you can take literally many grams of this stuff (the mucuna pruriens) I would suggest starting like i mentioned with 1 or 2 capsules...(go by the weight of the capsule when you use NOW - dopa mucuna)...500mg if ok then 1000mg if ok...etc...you can safely take up to around 10grams of that stuff if i remember the studies. but you probably wont need that much...just remember at some point stimulation will become irritability...so then youve crossed the line and bring it down a lil. Typically for anxiety patients/depression patients dose range is 2000mg to 5000mg area (think by capsule - for now) not mg of L-dopa.
> What would the max dose of the NOW mucuna dose be? I see that 2 caps has 120mgs of l dopa, but i've also seen l dopa sold in 250mgs.
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> I'm a higher dose responder. And typically, dopamine drugs make my irratability and anxiety less.
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> Regards,
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> Brian
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