Posted by Larry Hoover on May 26, 2005, at 19:16:21
In reply to Re: Magnesium orotate, uridine, arachidonic acid » Larry Hoover, posted by JLx on May 26, 2005, at 12:43:02
Quick comments to your lengthy post.....
I don't think the intention is to get 500 mg/day of elemental magnesium from magnesium orotate supplements, is it? It's to take 500 mg of the complex, which just happens to be mostly orotic acid by mass (orotic acid is a pretty large molecule, and magnesium is a single atom).
Yes, it looks like orotic acid is better than lecithin. And citicholine perhaps better still. That does not mean, however, that the two cannot work together in harmony. If you supply two parallel metabolic pathways simultaneously, you tend to promote those aspects of each pathway (the alternate routes) which are not congruent. So, I'd wager that lecithin plus citicholine is better than just citicholine. Of course, I plan to try it alone, and in concert with fish oil.
The oxidation products of arichidonic acid accidentally formed upon cell death are coincidentally the same ones that are purposely released to signal inflammatory processes. The end result is the same; the arichidonic acid cascade is indeed predominant in depression. Chicken or egg, who knows.
Lar
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