[cat199]

> I am low in BH4 which limits my ability to metabolize amino acids down the common pathway and thinks like phenylalanine get metabolized dow the alternative pathways creating PEA and Tyramine. But also I have the mental illness associated changes in TAAR1 and VMAT1 and VMAT2. (I have schizoaffective Bipolar Disorder.)

this is an amazing amount of self knowledge about these topics - i'm sure some came from introspection, but for the rest - how did you find these things out or are you in the field?

seems like useful knowledge for people to have, aside from problems with over self diagnosis of course

[FollowingTheDao]

20 years ago my life finally fell apart from my mood disorder that’s heavily genetic in my family on my mother side. So while on disability after leaving my job as a network engineer I decided to go full in and try to find out what part of our genetics was causing this problem.

I had the benefit of living next to a large research hospital which I stayed in three or four times during some of my episodes. But once the Internet really came around my learning grew exponentially.

I have the added benefit of probably having aspergers as well. I also perform countless experiments on myself using different combinations of supplements in diet. Each failure let me to great information about what was going on. Now I’m at a place where I only need klonopin on occasion. This is coming from being on four different medication‘s at once.

And thanks.