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09-22-2015, 08:21 PM | #8 | ||
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Gerry,
You write: "I currently take 34.5 g of Mucuna (40% levodopa) daily plus 45 g of tyrosine." That's approximately 14g of levodopa per day, plus whatever may come from the tyrosine. This compares with for most people on C/L of under 1g (= 1000mg) per day. I think it would be really useful to everyone if we understood why these numbers are so different. For a start, you don't take carbidopa. Wikipedia states that [1]: "Carbidopa reduces the amount of levodopa required to produce a given response by about 75% ..." That reduces the comparable level from 14g to approximately 3g. Are there any other corrections to make? How do you avoid nausea with these amounts of levodopa? Reference: [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbidopa John
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