Spiritualized--
I am not schizophrenic, but I do have it in the family. I did have brain dysfunction kind of problem where certain brain receptors were damaged and were under-responsive, requiring huge amounts of "juice" (glutamate) to trigger the receptors. This created huge amounts of ammonia (byproduct of metabolizing amino acids)in my brain. The body can handle a certain amount, but there is a limit.
I once stumbled on a page on the web from a guy who treated his own bi-polar disorder with amino acids. When he was in the manic phase, he basically used inhibitory amino acids. When in depressive, he used excitatory aminos. He would take a combination of all 20 essential amino acids in both cases to balance out whatever was needed.
I've used this method to treat myself in the past 6 years because medicine really had no answers for me. I researched the mechanism of what was happening so that I thoroughly understood how/why all the myriad of symptoms building up over the last 45 years happened. I had an answer as to why each of them occurred.
I first used the theory that I would start with amino acids that treated the longest-term symptoms first, hoping they would ameliorate the later symptoms.
That didn't really work. I found that I could not tolerate certain aminos, and couldn't tolerate the all-20-essential amino acid combinations. It can happen that when there is imbalance, pH balance of the gut gets disturbed too.
Long story short, it is a largely experimental process. There is not much, really, out there about what each amino acid does, what you should take it with, adverse reactions. At first I would take all the stuff with the amino (vitamin C, B12, Iron, etc. ) but all that stressed the liver/kidneys even more.
But if you read the adverse reactions and keep meticulous notes about how you're feeling, you will be able to know when a particular one is not reacting well.
Obviously, you never introduce more than one at a time so you can monitor how you feel with it. But you will know pretty quickly which ones make you feel better.
There are some that cross the blood-brain barrier immediately. Those were what I used when I could feel the symptoms starting, to cut it off before I had to recover for 10 days.
If you want to PM me, I'd be glad to share what I learned. It should be approached with caution, though, because there can be just as real dangers of over-dosage as with medicines. But the advantages are that (a) they are readily available without prescription and (b) they are reasonably priced and (c) they help
repairyour body, not just try to suppress your symptoms, which is what most modern medicine does.
Also, the notes you keep should be kept on computer, so you can search. There would be times where I would get some weird thing--like pain in my tongue. I would remember I had felt this before and have to search back years and find out what I discovered had caused it earlier.
Also, these aminos can interfere with the medications you are taking. You can do some research as to which ones are likely to interfere, but, honestly, the information is really sketchy. Bit pharma is not highly motivated to use these as treatments because they can't be patented. But healing what makes all our proteins, bones, tendons, brain cells, eye cells --with the substance that comprise them --makes perfect sense to me.
I am now back off of everything but I have had to go back on certain ones for a time. Eventually I will function totally normally again. I'm about 85% now.
Good luck in your search.
IsleWalker - Lora
P.S After finding that page from the guy who used them, I never could find it again. It makes me wonder. Either, he got worse or "someone" helped me find that information. The modern equivalent of an angel who just disappears once the work is done.
P.P.S I just recently read Donna Eden's book on Energy Medicine where she has a method of testing what substances will have a positive or negative effect on the body. It is basically that test where you put your arm out and someone tries to put it down (not hard). With positive substances, it will "bounce back". With negative, the arm will lose strength. She has a test you can do by yourself, but I really haven't yet mastered it. But theoretically, if I trusted the answers I got, it could have been invaluable during this process.
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