Posted by GavinoFelix on January 3, 2014, at 11:10:51
In reply to Really no coments?, posted by sk85 on December 30, 2013, at 12:53:47
Yeah, I've never really gotten any sustained effect from rhodiola. I worked at a health food store for 4 years and had access to employee discounts for all different supplement companies . Basically I could get < or = wholesale pricing. I mainly stuck to Gaia and New Chapter products just due to the percieved reliability of their products.
I went through periods experimenting with dosages of up to 300mg b.i.d of each product (i forget the rosavin and salidroside percentages) for sustained stretches of time (let's say a month). Also, during this time, I was on 225mg venlafaxine. But yeah, nothing I could definitively say was not a placebo effect. It was about 3-4 years ago, so I don't remember all the specifics.
I remember finding out that UPenn was doing a clinical trial on rhodiola rosea (IIRC in Russia, muliple species of the plant are used in folk medicine). I actually just went address listed and just walked around the offices until I found the person conducting the study (yeah, I tend to be pretty terrible with maintaining 'adherence to socially acceptable behavior'). Whoever it was happened to be quite nice, and answered my questions regarding concentrations of active constituents and dosing protocols. Even when I followed those I didn't really notice too much of an effect (I think they were doing up to 300mg b.i.d.).
IMHO, herbal MAOIs really have little to do with the mega-monster non-selective and irreversible MAOIs like Parnate and Nardil. Many commonly consumed 'herbs' have MAOI properties - namely, coffee and tobacco - that have no dangerous interactions with Parnate, Nardil, etc.
Semper fi
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