Much as I hate to, I am going to suspend my mucuna experiments, at least for now, due to some of the most painful stomach cramping I have experienced. This may just be me. I am pretty far along PD-wise and take lots of Requip and a fair amount of Sinemet. In seeking to replace them I was up to 50 g daily of mucuna and did, indeed, pretty much do without the store-bought stuff for a couple of days. But the cramping was kind of scary. Never experienced anything like it - just clamped down and held for several hours.

So, I am going to back off for awhile and maybe take a look at precursors. As to mucuna, if I were newly diagnosed I would be all over it and use it to avoid the meds as long as possible. I may well come back to it if I get down to where I don't need so much, but for now I'm saddlin' up and heading west. Going to start myself an amino ranch.