Guest guest Posted December 1, 2008 Report Share Posted December 1, 2008 Is taurine stimulating? I want to give it a try... but I am not sure whether to start in the evening. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted December 1, 2008 Report Share Posted December 1, 2008 If you already had too much taurine then their could be issues, however most ASD kids are deficient, so this is not usually a problem. Recall GABA is an inhibitory neurotransmitter that often helps our kids remain calm. Glutamate is like the opposite, an excitatory neurotransmitter which encourages neurons to fire - so there is a constant balancing act between GABA and Glutamate, the needs of which vary from time to time and for different situations/tasks. In general when working correctly *taurine should actually be calming* as taurine has been used successfully to suppress seizures due to its *ability to increase GABA* utilisation in the brain. To put GABA in perspective so you can relate to in in your everyday life, remember the times you drank too much coffee and you felt really wired and hyped up? Caffeine inhibits the release of GABA. So you have less GABA doing its job, so more nerve transmissions are allowed to occur and Glutamate can run wild. Anxiety, panic attacks, and seizures have been shown in many cases to be related to low GABA activity. Arias wrote: > > Is taurine stimulating? I want to give it a try... but I am not sure > whether to start in the evening. > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted December 2, 2008 Report Share Posted December 2, 2008 > > Is taurine stimulating? I want to give it a try... but I am not sure > whether to start in the evening. I would never start anything in the evening. Even for supps that are *supposed* to be calming, you never know how it will affect your child. I started everything in the morning, and then I would move it to the evening if appropriate. Dana Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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