Imark, thanks so much for that articles. Mucuna has amazing properties and can do much more for us than Sinemet can, it seems.
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"Even L-Dopa free
fraction of seed showed significant antiparkinsonism activity"
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That's fantastic. This is surprising:
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HP-200 had a significant effect on dopamine content in the
cortex with no significant effect on levodopa, norepinephrine
or dopamine, serotonin, and their metabolites- HVA, DOPAC
and 5-HIAA in the nigrostriatal tract. The failure of Mucuna
pruriens endocarp to significantly affect dopamine
metabolism in the striatonigral tract along with its ability to
improve Parkinsonian symptoms in the 6-hydorxydopamine
animal model and humans may suggest that its antiparkinson
effect may be due to components other than levodopa or that
it has an levodopa enhancing effect (33).
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I was happy to read:
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M.C. Pant et al reported that Mucuna pruriens possesses
hypoglycemic and hypocholesterolemic effects in the normal
rats (35). The sugar level was lowered by 39% and the
cholesterol level was lowered by 61% with the rats fed with
Mucuna pruriens.
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I'm especially happy that is seems to be neuroprotective. An amazing find. I wonder when they first began using it for PD and how they stumbled on it. It's pathetic that the MDS at my health plan never even heard of it. But she gave her blessing, anyway, for me to take it. I just got a referrel for a new MDS.
In other articles the HP-200 was a powder. I didn't know they had a liquid formulation. I thought it was the same as Zandopa, a powder that you dissolve (or suspend) in water.