When they do the rats, they always have large doses.
Sometimes the doses on PubMed studies are "strange".
You could contact the doctor... his email is on that abstract.
I think since you have positive results, it doesn't really matter.
Your doses are working for you. That you are feeling better means you needed the lipoic.
The nerve growth factors sound very experimental to me. It is not clear if those were measured on severed nerves in a lab?
Many growth factors are done that way.
The value of the "ami" study is that it was the only TCA with those results. That narrows the field for doctors to choose it.
For you, I'd concentrate on substances that improve mito functions for a while.
Lipoic acid also provides other benefits:
http://www.umm.edu/altmed/articles/a...oic-000285.htm
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