Has anyone tried this supplement

ablue · August 6, 2018, 1:53am

There is theories that sz might be caused from low levels of glutamate (glutamic acid). Is anyone on this supplement?

naturallycured · August 6, 2018, 1:57am

I have some, tried it for a few days, didn’t seem to impact my symptoms any. Stopped using it when I read that there was a cancer risk tied to it.

ablue · August 6, 2018, 1:58am

Ah. Thanks for the info. If it doesn’t do anything maybe I’ll stay away from it.

naturallycured · August 6, 2018, 2:01am

One of the antipsychotic mechanisms of action is to reduce glutamate levels in the brain, also.

ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

Six-month treatment with atypical antipsychotic drugs decreased frontal-lobe levels of glutamate plus glutamine in early-stage first-episode schizophrenia.

N Goto, R Yoshimura, S Kakeda, J Nishimura, J Moriya, K Hayashi, A Katsuki, H Hori, W Umene-Nakano, A Ikenouchi-Sugita, Y Korogi and J Nakamura, Neuropsychiatric disease and treatment, 2012

To study the effects of treatment with atypical antipsychotic drugs on brain levels of glutamate plus glutamine in early-stage first-episode schizophrenia.Sixteen patients (eight males, eight females; aged 30 ± 11 years) completed the study.We used administered 6 months of atypical antipsychotic drugs and used proton magnetic resonance spectroscopy to evaluate the results.We found that the administration of atypical antipsychotic drugs for 6 months decreased the glutamate plus glutamine/creatine ratio in the frontal lobe. These results suggest that the administration of atypical antipsychotic drugs for at least 6 months decreased glutamatergic neurotransmissions in the frontal lobe in early-stage first-episode schizophrenia, but there was no difference in frontal-lobe levels between patients and control subjects before administration.Taking these findings into account, the glutamatergic and GABAergic neurons are implicated in early-stage first-episode schizophrenia, but in complex ways.

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