GPC/CDP appear to be BY FAR the best methods of supplementing acetylcholine {...}
-Choline bitartrate/citrate/etc. are essentially useless for ACHe, because on a healthy diet, its the acetyl-ization moreso than the choline level that determines the amount of ACHe.
-Lecithin is only a little better, as phosphadityl choline passes the blod-brain barrier, but again it just increases choline concentrations.
Okay, I'm bumping this up to ask a question...
I've recently been taking Lecithin granules (usually mixed with cranberry juice!) plus Vitamin B5, B6 and a multi-vitamin/ multi-mineral supplement, to try to increase my Acetylcholine levels.
The main reason I'm doing this relates to (lucid) dreaming ~ Acetylcholine is apparently
the neurotransmitter when it comes to dreaming, being essentially the only neuroransmitter firing (at levels anywhere above trace) during REM sleep.
Anyway, I was interested in the sentence I've highlighted above. Sorry if this sounds like asking someone to spell out the blatantly obvious (?
), at least to everyone else, but is the point here that it's the brains ability to
convert choline (etc) into Acetylcholine that's crucial, in otherwise healthy individuals, rather than the amount of choline swishing about
per se?
If so, what supplements or substances are most effective in this respect?
Are we talking about Galantamine -type substances here, or something else? Or is this precisely what Alpha GPC does? (I hadn't heard of A-GPC before finding this forum, I have been using 'search' here but I'm finding it hard to pin down exactly what A-GPC
does). Is Alpha-GPC generally considered the most effective way of increasing "acetyl-ization" then?
Thanks in advance for any replies..
Edited by triffidfood, 12 July 2006 - 02:00 AM.