Hi Ken, I used GABA a couple years ago to help reduce anxiety induced by taking imbalanced amino acids that were suggested by my doc for mood elevation/immune enhancement. The GABA helped me a lot and I needed up to thirteen 500 mg. capsules per day (Now Foods brand) to get evened out. I was able to reduce the dosage as time progressed and now I don't need any at all.
I found that it helps the most if taken regularly throughout the day such as three or four times. I have also used it before bedtime to relax by emptying a capsule into my mouth and dissolving it sublingually. If I wake up in the night this method can help quite a bit to get me back to sleep. So can magnesium glycinate taken the same way. I prefer magnesium gel now (magnesium chloride) applied transdermally. It's a great value mg. for mg.! With GABA I did get the niacin-like flush also but it is short-lived and easy enough to put up with. Some say that supplemental GABA is very poorly absorbed and it probably is but it still helped me when I needed it. A good book regarding amino acid supplementation and related dietary manipulation, if you're interested, is "The Edge Effect", by Dr. Eric R. Braverman. M.D.. I found it to be very informative. Best regards, Peter ----- Original Message ----- From: Ken & Nancy Bagwell To: silver-list@eskimo.com Sent: Friday, July 10, 2009 4:10 AM Subject: Re: CS> GABA source I took 6 grams of GABA for a few days. The Source Naturals version. I was disappointed. It actually did NOTHING for me at all. Well, I did get a little bit of tingles after taking it, kind of like a mild niacin flush, but otherwise, I do not believe that GABA, as a powdered supplement works. My understanding is that GABA, as a supplement, does not get past the blood/brain barrier. Maybe someone else has another experience or explanation? -Ken Bagwell ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ From: Ken & Nancy Bagwell <kenancy2...@yahoo.com> To: Harold MacDonald <har...@telus.net> Sent: Friday, July 10, 2009 1:08:54 AM Subject: Re: CS> GABA source I took 6 grams of GABA for a few days. The Source Naturals version. I was disappointed. It actually did NOTHING for me at all. Well, I did get a little bit of tingles after taking it, kind of like a mild niacin flush, but otherwise, I do not believe that GABA, as a powdered supplement works. My understanding is that GABA, as a supplement, does not get past the blood/brain barrier. Maybe someone else has another experience or explanation? -Ken Bagwell ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ From: Harold MacDonald <har...@telus.net> To: Silver Post <silver-list@eskimo.com>; A. Reid Harvey <reidhar...@hotmail.com> Sent: Tuesday, July 7, 2009 10:10:03 AM Subject: CS> GABA source http://betterlife.com/prod_home_page.asp?prod_id=27651 Other benefits of GABA Snipped; The Lipoic Acid, vitamin E treatment significantly increased the level of glutathione, GABA and serotonin levels in the whole brain as well as in the regions of the olfactory lobe, cerebrum, hippocampus-hypothalamus, cerebellum and pons-medulla. This is quite a demonstration of the actions of these compounds in protecting the brain from environmental toxic assault. -- The Silver List is a moderated forum for discussing Colloidal Silver. Instructions for unsubscribing are posted at: http://silverlist.org To post, address your message to: silver-list@eskimo.com Address Off-Topic messages to: silver-off-topic-l...@eskimo.com The Silver List and Off Topic List archives are currently down... List maintainer: Mike Devour <mdev...@eskimo.com>
