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- From: szikopou@superior.carleton.ca (Steven Zikopoulos)
- Subject: Re: Smart drugs
- Message-ID: <szikopou.727735773@cunews>
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- Organization: Carleton University
- References: <1993Jan14.161238.10974@blaze.cs.jhu.edu> <1993Jan20.184144.6 <1993Jan22.180244.6329@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>
- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 20:49:33 GMT
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- In <1993Jan22.180244.6329@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> aankrom@nyx.cs.du.edu (Anthony Ankrom) writes:
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- >About L-Dopa. I don't think you want to take this for a "smart" drug at
- >all. Quite the contrary. In fact L-Dopa has quite a bit of anticholinergic
- >effects. Certainly _not_ the action you'd want for a smart drug. In fact,
- >several purported "smart" drugs are cholinergics.
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- >St. Anthony (apologies for using the phrase "in fact" twice in the same
- >paragraph... ;-) )
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- Quite right. If you want to do some neurotransmitter precursor
- loading (cheaply!) try buying some lecithin at your local pharmacy or
- health food store. Lecithin is a natural source of choline which is
- needed in the synthesis of acetylcholine. Before anyone starts dosing
- themselves with massive quanties of lecithin...do some research. I'm
- not sure if there is a rate limiting step that will prevent choline
- loading from inducing an increase in acetylchoine or not.
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- Anyway L-Dopa isn't cheap and not easy to get. Besides...if one
- doesn't watch it they may end up inducing a schizophrenic psychosis!
- Nasty nasty!
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- Steve Zikopoulos
- szikopou@ccs.carleton.ca
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