Re: GABA - Determining if the BBB has been breached or is open?

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Thanks for your reply. I do understand now why L theanine is working so well on

my boy, he has low dopamine (according to zyto test) and L theanine increses

dopamine.

My boys is more alert, confident, calmer and sleeps so well all night that we

couldn't be happier with his progress, of course he is having other things as

well that are helping the healing process and L theanine is just one of them.

Olga

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> > Just sharing...

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> > I came across this interesting article below concerning GABA and the BBB.

They

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> > contend that if GABA calms your mood, then your BBB is not functioning

properly

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> > (inflammation?)

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> > " Gaba supplement is a mood calmer. Or is it? The little known, fascinating

> >fact

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> > behind Gaba supplement is that its mood calming properties should not work

on

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> > the human brain at all. And yet, some people will experience

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> > mood calming after taking Gaba supplement. So why is that? What can the

Gaba

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> > supplement tell us about the brain of the person affected by it? And the

brain

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> > of the person who isn't?

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> > The human brain is provided with a kind of safety mechanism called the

Blood

> > Brain Barrier (BBB). Like the mosquito net on your window, which lets in

air

> > but will prevent larger objects like mosquitoes from getting through, the

> > Blood Brain Barrier protects the brain from harm. While preventing large

> > microscopic objects like bacteria from getting through, the Blood Brain

> >Barrier

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> > still allows smaller hydrophobic molecules like oxygen and hormones to get

> > through and maintain normal brain and body functions. How Gaba supplement

> > relates to the Blood Brain Barrier is most instructive.

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> > When the Blood Brain Barrier fails to insulate the brain, not merely

viruses

> > and bacteria get through. A mood calming supplement like Gaba can penetrate

> >the

> >

> > brain and create the calming effects associated with Gaba. And yet, in a

> > healthy human whose Blood Brain Barrier is functioning normally, Gaba

should

> > have no effect at all... "

> >

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>http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/2989138/gaba_supplement_and_the_blood_\

brain.html?cat=5

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> > If this is true, it seems then that the best course of action is to try

things

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> > that do close the BBB.

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