Time to try mucuna

[mis37]

Tomorrow I will start taking mucuna (solaray) in addition to my meds xadago 100 and Neupro 6. Any recommendations ?

I've been reading related posts, anyway all your comments are welcome.

Thanks in advance

[Beckey]

I have benefited from mucuna. It is much gentler on the system than sinemet, I have found.

[Dap1948]

I have started to exchange my synthetic ldopa (madopar) for solaray's DopaBean. I was on 4x 50mg madopar, so chose DopaBean because it also has 50 mg of ldopa in it. I am now taking two synthetic and two madopar and alll is going well. Half way! Always take macuna with food.

[KERRINGTON in reply to Dap1948]

Where did you find Solaray 50 % ? I could only find Solaray 30 %. Thanks

[Dap1948 in reply to KERRINGTON]

Soloray 30% has 50mg of ldopa in it.

[KERRINGTON in reply to Dap1948]

Oh, ok, I need to review my 5th grade math..

[Dap1948 in reply to KERRINGTON]

Actually it says it on the tub! I have, in fact, changed my mucuna supply recently to a freshly made tincture made from organic mucuna seeds from India. It is made by a herbalist not far from me. I feel it is purer and I'd become a little concerned about the potency of the soloray capsules after a tub had been open for some time.

[KERRINGTON in reply to Dap1948]

Funny you shd mention Soloray potency issue...I began using the 30 % 3 days ago, starting with 1 to test it for any untold reaction, then after feeling comfortable, I upped it to 2 caps, then 3 , 3-4 times a day. I was confused when I felt very little relief, as opposed to how much better I felt using my Banyan 4 to 7 % . I wd take 3 to 4 , 3 to 4 x a day.

I opened the Solray capsule and found a hard tablet. I guess the fact that the hard capsule together with a hard compressed tablet, and poor quality control ? contribute to uneven results ?

Banyan tablet is weaker so I'll have to pop more till I find something stronger and equally pure.

[Dap1948 in reply to KERRINGTON]

My therapist has a vegatest device which tests foods and supplements with your body. A bit like muscle testing. He tested an opened tub and compared it to an unopened tub. My body apparently showed it would benefit from the contents of the UNopened tub but there was nothing in the capsules in the opened tub that would benefit me.

[KERRINGTON in reply to Dap1948]

But whether opened, or not, wouldn't both tubs ( are you from the UK ,contain pretty much the same content ?

[Dap1948 in reply to KERRINGTON]

Yes I'm in the UK. The tub had tested well when unopened but when tested after having been open for a month it appeared to have lost its potency. This matched the increase in symptoms I had noted. These symptoms reduced again when I opened a new pot.

[mis37]

Should I take egcg to work correctly?