Amino Acid Therapy Week 3 & 4 Results

Seems like it's been a heck of a lot longer than 2 months though! man... It's been a loooooong two months that's for sure!

brt4545- I started taking the Amino acid therapy as soon as I saw Mark having suck great success. Honestly, I wish I would have waited to see how he finishes up. there are a couple other of us on here who are just starting out ( I am 1 month in). You may want to wait and see how we all do on it. I don't want to discourage you, but it is massively expensive. My bill for the first month was 830.00 (and included 2 urine samples). It is not cheap, and it is not easy.
Therearemiracles-how are you feeling?

I figure if Mark, myself and therearemiracles all have success, well than I say go for it. Even if 2 of us have success, that is 66% success rate. Fingers crossed that in a month or so we will all be preaching this therapy.

King of the toilet, sounds like you are on to a winner paying $820 a month is just not affordable what you have done sounds a lot more affordable and if they are the same ingredient then why not.

Please keep me informed of how you get on.

Much appreciated.

 

lemonhead said...
King of the toilet-
Nice name. 830 was for the consultation (200), 2 urine tests at 160/each, and 4 bottles of supplements. For me the $$ is important, but it is more important to be doing this under the watchful eye of a physician. I am paying for his expertise as he has done this many times.
Where did you buy them? I will look and see if they are comparable to what we are taking>

I bought them from Amazon and Ebay. The first three I wrote are from the "Now foods" brand while the last one is from the "Doctor's best" brand. See the links below for more:

www.nowfoods.com/Supplements/Products-by-Category/Amino-Acids/L-Cysteine-500mg-100-Tablets.htm
www.nowfoods.com/Supplements/Products-by-Category/Amino-Acids/L-Tyrosine-500mg-60-Veg-Capsules.htm
www.nowfoods.com/Supplements/Products-by-Category/Amino-Acids/L-Lysine-1000mg-Double-Strength-100-Tablets.htm
www.iherb.com/Doctor-s-Best-5-HTP-Enhanced-with-Vitamins-B6-C-120-Veggie-Caps/8

I actually started them a few hours ago.

@King

We all know we can buy the actual supplements anywhere for roughly 50% less than we we are paying. Most health stores have them. The cost of the supplements is not the issue at all.

I'm sure you'll have some sort of response for sure -good or bad well, I guess we'll find out soon enough. Old Mike had a rough go when he tried something similar and made it a day or two.. that's it. Then called it quits because of the side effects.

The issue is what dose, and knowing what to change to. That's where you will probably run into trouble. Do keep us posted though, it will be interesting to see what happens. I guess you could follow the initial dosage suggestions for phase 1,2,3 in the older literature, but you may have trouble figuring out what phase you're actually in and what to adjust to to.

lemonhead said...
I just looked at the supplements we are taking vs. the ones you ordered. One big difference is that the supplements we are taking contain the precursors in them. Meaning that you have to have a way for the amino acid to enter your system, they have to be accompanied by a precursor to be absorbed.

Actually the amino-acids L-tyrosine and 5-HTP are the precursors of the neurotransmitters Dopamine and Serotonin respectively.

lemonhead said...
One of our supplements has: Vit. c, Lysine, calcium citrate, 5HTP, Vit B6, tyrosine and folate in it. The other has: Cysteine, selenium, folate.

With regards to the first (Neuroreplete) I have all the ingredients expect for calcium citrate and folate. Apparently calcium citrate is used as a preservative. I'm not certain about the use of folate. With regards to the second (CysReplete) I miss both selenium and folate. I'm not certain about the use of selenium as well.

lemonhead said...
And you didn't even mention where you will be getting your L-dopa.

According to this L-dopa is just another precursor of the neurotransmitter Dopamine, which can be created by L-tyrosine as well. But I could of course try L-Dopa as well.

lemonhead said...
Just be careful.

Sure

I am still taking my VSL every day. If I miss, it is not good. I should get my next dose tomorrow. So, we will see.

I did go back and read your posts,sorryabout that. Maybe after this next test it will shed sme light on what supplements I should change or go on. I'm not seeing any improvement really. I thought maybe energy, but that's still the same.

yesterday I had a half of a pancake (not gluten free) today I'm have lots of urgency, blood and a basketball bloat. Alot is diet.

We'll see where it goes next week when I email Dr. Stein.

Cheers

Yes i have by blood work, negative. By allergy testing, I'm allergic to yeast so that maybe the culprit.

I'm only on cyreplete (6), neuroplete(1) and mucuna5 40% (2) and I'm handling them all well :)

I hope the tyrosine works for you. Any improvement in your stools?

@Miracles -I had the same fun experience just last week when I was having the mucus only bowel movements. Brutal. But eventually over the last few days things have really started to click well. No more mucus only bowel movements and minor mucus if any at all, along with formed stool and usually once or twice per day. Still a little sensitive to some foods (i.e grains and junk food). But pretty darn good otherwise. I've had pizza, nachos and probiotics all without any issue the last few days.

And yes - I seem to have the same symptoms as you for about the same period of time. Probably less blood though.

I will say as of now this treatment 100% effects two things: 1) Inflammation and 2) the way your body responds/reacts to foods. There's no doubt in my mind about this now.

I've been reluctant to post this but as of today I seem to be the closest I have ever come to normal now... We'll see how the next few days go.

I'm actually very excited! The last weak or so was rough, but sticking through with it seems to have paid off big time.

Well - Today is Amino Acid Therapy progress test day!

I've been feelin exceptionally, exceptionally, awesome the last few days. No issues at all really. I almost want to say asymptomatic, but am afraid to just yet! haha... Had some baked Blue Corn Nachos with organic cheddar cheese, ground beef and organic salsa last night again (second night in a row) - this morning I awoke and didn't even have the urge to hit the can for about 3 hours... three hours! And normal poop! No mucus, no blood, solid.

So I left for a meeting this morning, and we decided to go get coffee at Starbuck's and I had the Protein Bistro Box again, but this time I put the peanut butter and honey on the musli bread it comes with and ate it (normally this bread results in some serious major gastric distress, haha)... even on my last test it with it a few weeks ago it still caused some issue... It's now been quite a few hours and no issue whatsoever... sooooo... I said what the heck, I'm going all in here! - I took a trip to the health food store and bought a loaf of Kamut and Flax Bread. I had no idea what Kamut was - but turns out is some sort of un-hybridized wheat. Anyway, bread is bread... I picked it cause it had honey as the last ingredient, not sugar and I could read and understand all the ingredients which there where only like 4. So it seemed like a healthy choice.

I came home, opened a can of salmon and made a full on salmon sandwich with two pieces of bread!! Good lord, that was good! So far so good, no "wheat" head rush lol or sugar rush... No gastric distress...

To re-cap, that's one big piece of Muscli bread (not sure how that spelled) and two full pieces of whole wheat bread in one day!

Let's see what tomorrow brings (If I'm alive and functioning after this!) This is the most bread I have ever had in one day in years... Oh - and I'm going to have a glass of chocolate milk tonight as well...

I'll report back tomorrow. Fingers crossed that I'm not hunched over crapping blood, D and mucus in a few hours!