TUCDA

[DreadPirateRoberts]

Long time reader, first time writer.

Question: Does anyone take TUCDA? (Tauroursodeoxycholic acid) If so, what is/was your experience?

DPR

[MBAnderson]

I took it on-and-off for 2 years and found it an expensive waste of money.

Then did some research on how it's made.

youtube.com/watch?v=FEMuSLt...(Not working as expected?)

youtube.com/watch?v=kINhmry...(Not working as expected?)

youtube.com/watch?v=DoQCc15...(Not working as expected?)

youtube.com/watch?v=QQddGwM...(Not working as expected?)

[Grumpy77 in reply to MBAnderson]

Just checking the thumbnails, I can see how cruel... I can't even bear to watch any of it

[Rhyothemis in reply to MBAnderson]

TUDCA is synthetic. It is made from cholesterol, which is derived from animals, but it is not extracted from bears.

[MBAnderson in reply to Rhyothemis]

Thanks. That's a relief.

Bear bile farming for UDCA in China is not yet illegal and continues. It takes a pretty twisted government to allow this.

animalsasia.org/us/media/ne...

[Rhyothemis]

I have used it off an on. Mostly I don't since I am worried that it may interfere with the body's cancer prevention mechanisms - which involves induction of ER stress. I have used it for really bad menstrual cramps. I believe it works in that regard by blocking oxytocin; I thought I had an article that states that it blocks oxytocin, but I seem to have lost it.

I don't have PD; I suspect I may be in the prodrome of multiple system atrophy. I didn't find any noticeable effect on my symptoms but I think it might be one of those things you have to take a while to see any benefit.