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- From: bwhite@oucsace.cs.ohiou.edu (William E. White )
- Newsgroups: talk.abortion,alt.drugs,alt.magick,alt.pagan
- Subject: Re: Smart drugs
- Message-ID: <1993Jan22.054237.18305@oucsace.cs.ohiou.edu>
- Date: 22 Jan 93 05:42:37 GMT
- References: <1993Jan14.161238.10974@blaze.cs.jhu.edu> <1993Jan20.184144.6464@noao.edu>
- Organization: Ohio University, Computer Science Department
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- In article <1993Jan20.184144.6464@noao.edu> forgach@noao.edu (Suzanne Forgach) writes:
- >From article <1993Jan14.161238.10974@blaze.cs.jhu.edu>, by mgross@server.cs.jhu.edu (Matthew B. Gross):
- >> I take phenylalanine about every day, and it really sharpens my awareness,
- >> but I'd like to find something which could help me in the long-term.
-
- Try tyrosine, it's one step closer to what you're trying to get (or you could
- just take L-DOPA, or eat a lot of broad beans.)
-
- >I like caffeine, myself.
-
- Actually caffeine is an adenosine antagonist, not at all the same sort of
- sympathomimetic as, say, ephedrine or amphetamine. In the long run, tho,
- it still results in sympathomimetic action, with all the negative long-term
- side effects, namely the downregulation of tyrosine hydroxylase; the brain
- self-corrects for excesses and this prevents you from keeping permanently
- buzzed.
-
- Now, what we really need are drugs to inccrease production of tyrosine
- hydroxylase.
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