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

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Just sharing...I came across this interesting article below concerning GABA and the BBB. They contend that if GABA calms your mood, then your BBB is not functioning properly (inflammation?) "Gaba supplement is a mood calmer. Or is it? The little known, fascinating fact behind Gaba supplement is that its mood calming properties should not work on 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 supplement tell us about the brain of the person affected by it? And the brain of the person who isn't?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 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.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..."http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/2989138/gaba_supplement_and_the_blood_brain.html?cat=5If this is true, it seems then that the best course of action is to try things that do close the BBB.