Posted by laima on August 12, 2006, at 16:47:34
In reply to Re: EMSAM and Inositol » laima, posted by Jost on August 12, 2006, at 11:43:37
Thank you- too bad my doctor feels most supplements, including vitamins, are a useless waste of money- that's one thing I disagree with him about. I suppose the thing to do then might be to open up the capsule and try a teeny amount and see what happens--but maybe later.
> I don't think so, Laima. The inference that Edwin Ransom made wasn't a proper inference from the article.
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> If they had picked some other AD to compare to inositol, Edwin R might not have focussed on the serotonin element of the equation.
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> There's no particular reason to think that, if inositol does have anti-anxiety effects, it's because of a serotonin-raising property. But of course, it is possible.
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> Possible means that on my own knowledge, I couldn't rule it out, because I just don't know. Doesn't mean that there's any reason to have made the association.
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> However, since it's come to our attention, if you can't find out definitively, you could use caution at first. I would ask my Pdoc-- just to be sure. But if he doesn't know, I would experiment carefully after I'd been on my target dose of emsam for a while.
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