Posted by blueberry1 on January 28, 2007, at 14:43:27
In reply to Re: Larry Hoover? » kelv, posted by Larry Hoover on January 28, 2007, at 12:05:01
>Local perfusion of taurine (1, 10 or 100 mm in the perfusate) increased DA levels in the nAcc.The above from the first link supplied by Larry. That caught my attention. Taurine increases dopamine in the nucleus accumbens?
I tried tyrosine supplements last year. I had taurine onhand in case stimulation was too much. On a typical test day it went like this. First dose tyrosine lifted my mood real nice but only for 3 hours. Then a crash similar to ritalin. A second dose later did not do nearly as much as the first. A third dose later that day did nothing. By that time I actually had a lot of anxiety and even worse depression than I started with. So I pulled out the taurine. It did calm things down somewhat but something unexpected happened. It seemed to kickstart the tyrosine still in me and my mood lifted significantly, almost like that first dose of tyrosine did. I wonder if that was from the dopamine increase they talked about in the link?
On later trials of taurine it did provide some calming, not dramatic, but it always seemed to help mood anywhere in a range from neutral to somewhat pleasant. Most things make me feel worse, but taurine did not do that.
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