Preventing Schizophrenia during Pregnancy with high Choline Intake

So the same is probably true for soy-based lecithin and soy allergies, I would think.

You can also buy sunflower lecithin in supplement form to avoid soy.

For many years, my doctor had me on healthy fats from soy. He said I finally got allergic to it, and therefore he has me on sunflower lecithin at present.

Jayster

it appears sunflower lecithin is safer as soya lecithin is derived using hexane .

just confuesd a little is it 6 gms of choline or is it 6gms of lecithin

Here is the exact info:

Half the healthy pregnant women in this study took 3,600 milligrams of phosphatidylcholine each morning and 2,700 milligrams each evening;

So - its about 6 grams of the actual choline (the specific type of choline used successfully in the trial is phosphatidylcholine - so that is what I would use. Other types of choline might work - but there have been no studies on them.

Here is the summary of the research paper:

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actually my eyes do not blink when i hear a loud sound even the first time . however my whole body moves
instead which i beleive is known as acoustic startle response .this is there for my entire family .will choline help for that also