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Doesn't seem like it's possible to buy an L-DOPA supplement. You can only get the one that isn't "earmarked" for production of DA and NE, right?

1: I took some 5-HTP last night and it made a huge (!!!) difference. I really hope that this quite miraculous improvement doesn't go away. 2: When was the last time you took some 5-HTP? Baffling to me why it stopped working for you; hope you can get the effect back. 3: What can one say about...

1: Do you guys know a lot about butyrate and butyrate supplementation? See this excellent paper: https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/pharmacology/articles/10.3389/fphar.2022.893567/full. The paper says interesting things about butyrate, including the following: 2: I took some butyrate pills...

1: I get a huge reaction from melatonin. That's why I'm interested in agomelatine, which apparently has a superior melatonin-receptor effect to melatonin's, though I can't remember what exactly the advantage is supposed to be. 2: Melatonin is a fascinating thing...see this paper here...

Thanks for the excellent points. I appreciate it. 1: If you don't mind me asking, what are your credentials? You seem to have professional knowledge. 2: What do you think about Pendulum's products? Some of their products seem to be redundant. I think that the "Metabolic Daily" one contains...

What do you guys think about the cocktail that is mentioned below? And is that cocktail at all close to being available to consumers? https://www.mdpi.com/2076-2607/12/8/1627

Thanks. I assume that only trial and error can tell you which of the below is the best value for the money? They're all different prices on a per-capsule basis. https://www.amazon.ca/Boulardii-Billion-Diarrhea-Relief-Capsules/dp/B00CORN7PW...

Regarding treatment of dysbiosis, what are the implications of the bold part below? https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9300896/ How often do people use this type of probiotic? I hadn't heard of it...

I sometimes have these insane (absolutely INSANE) "collapses". I wonder whether phages might cause these collapses ( https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8764184/ ). 1: Phages might be responsible for a lot of people's dysbiosis, right? 2: But aren't people kind of screwed in the...

1: Is there any science (or speculation) that might explain the below scenario? --someone is taking a couple basic probiotics (Align and Culturelle) and doing extremely well thanks to those probiotics --the person suddenly undergoes a "collapse" where they lose all the wonderful health...

1: What do you guys think about this? https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10389721/ 2: And this? 3: If a given probiotic only benefits you by creating a certain SCFA, is just supplementing that SCFA (by taking a "postbiotic") a superior option?

1: Anyone here heard of combining apple-cider vinegar with probiotics? Not sure if there's any experience showing that that combo can be useful. Or any science that would point toward a potential synergy there. 2: What explains the seemingly weird precariousness regarding the fact that a human...

I wonder about this: https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/microbiology/articles/10.3389/fmicb.2022.993451/full Some probiotics are mentioned below that I haven't heard much about. I'd love to try some of these less-known probiotics eventually if the better-known ones aren't sufficient...

I posted the below: I got this response so far: I wonder what limitations the studies linked above (by the PhD guy) have. And to what extent can those studies' conclusions really be generalized? People are different, right? I really hope that I can change my gut-biota situation. Otherwise...

1: My curiosity about "muddying the waters" was that if you resist the temptation to add another probiotic to the ones you''re taking then you'll get better information than if you rush ahead. Do you see the conundrum? Adding new probiotics might improve things but also "muddies the waters" in...