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- From: hemlock@ucscb.UCSC.EDU (Monolithic Mind of Madness)
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- Subject: Re: Smart drugs
- Date: 23 Jan 1993 19:56:42 GMT
- Organization: University of California; Santa Cruz
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- Somebody was asking about taking phenylalanine for alertness, and
- somebody else suggested using tyrosine instead, it being one step
- closer to dopamine/noradrenaline.
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- First, I don't think the sole product of phenylalanine is going to be
- tyrosine. Phenylalanine seems to be active in lower doses and it seems
- to have a slightly different effect.
-
- What I'd like to know is, is it plausible that phenylalanine will be
- converted into something other than tyrosine (and then DA, noradrenaline,
- and adrenaline)? Would phenylalanine be at least partly converted to
- phenylethylamines in the brain? (Those are psychedelic amphetamines
- I believe.)
-
- Would anyone like to clarify this?
-
- I'd also like to note that when I was taking a lot of phenylalanine I
- did have 'more energy' but my sleep seemed to be less restful, so one
- should take that into consideration. These days I only use it when by
- circumstance I can't get enough sleep the night before.
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- --
- "The possessed's mad speech is the higher wisdom of the world, since it is
- human...Why have we not yet acquired this insight in relation to the world
- of the free will? Because outwardly we are the masters of madness, because
- the insane are violated by us, and we hinder them from living according to
- their ethical laws...Now we must endeavor to overcome the dead point in our
- relationship to insanity." --Wieland Herzfelde, 1914
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