Posted by bleauberry on June 2, 2010, at 18:11:39
In reply to Re: Garlic for mood)))orthomolecular » bleauberry, posted by rovers95 on June 1, 2010, at 19:42:54
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> Hey bleauberry, really like reading your posts on here and was just wondering, alongside garlic what would else you include in say your top 3 (or maybe even 5!)mood boosters?Hey thanks! It's great talking with you too.
Top mood boosters? Geez, if I knew that, I would be rich. It varies so much from person to person, depending on what the underlying root cause of their mood disorder is. It could be anything from an unsuspected chronic infection to heavy metals to a genetic flaw in metabolizing nutrients or flaws in methylation or flaws in fatty acids or actual brain damage from any of the above. Tough to guess. Many can be easily tested, but hardly anyone does that.
In my early days St Johns Wort (either the cheap WalMart Spring Valley brand or the clinical Kira brand, both were great) along with a tiny bit of 5htp, well that was the best it ever was. It worked awesome and fast. A stupid psychiatrist took me off and I was never the same after that, and they didn't work on a second try.
I could name off a bunch of naturals that have either scientific or anecdotal evidence as mood boosters. Some you've heard of, some you haven't, and some you probably did not know had the ability to lift mood. Licorice for example is not known as an antidepressant, but for anyone with adrenal exhaustion and in need of a little bit of a MAO inhibition, it's a good one. A good infection fighter too. There are so many medicinal plants.
Ok, so in a hypothetical example a best friend is depressed, knows I have a lot of experience with that illness, he/she does not want to see a doctor but asks me my opinion on the top 5 things they should try. These are what would be on that list:
Rhodiola rosea.
SAMe.
St Johns Wort.
DLPA.
5htp.
With the likelihood of combining small doses of two of them if one was ok but not good enough.For meds, my top choices are:
Prozac+Ritalin
Prozac+Zyprexa
Parnate
Nardil
Zoloft+Nortriptyline>
> Do you still use and if so, what sort of dosages do you take?I just bought another brand at Whole Foods and haven't tried it yet. It is enteric coated and equal to 4 cloves. Too much other stuff going on right now and I don't want to confuse things. Garlic is the next add-on though. My dose will be whatever I can take up to the point of it wreaking through my skin, at which point I will back it off a little bit.
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