Originally Posted by lurkingforacure

We are unfortunately in that group of people who can't eat so much as a cracker without it interfering with sinemet. Early on we tried to skip eating all day, and that did give our best effect with sinemet, but that is just not possible to sustain. Who can go without eating all day so their sinemet works, day after day? We couldn't.

Enter mucuna. We can have oatmeal, a salad, toast, even a breakfast taco or sandwich, and the mucuna will still take effect. Obviously the heavier the meal the longer the mucuna will take to hit, but unless we've eaten a steak and basket of fries, we can actually eat and still get benefit from mucuna.

This is our experience, though, and everyone is different. I personally believe there are compounds in mucuna we don't know about that impact its efficacy. I'm no chemist, but I do know how we feel when we take sinemet and how we feel when we take mucuna.