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Ratio of Mucuna Pruriens in mg to synthetic levadopa ?

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good evening to all I am French I treat myself with capsules of Mucuna...

Does anyone know the equivalence between 100mg of a Solbia brand capsule with its equivalent in modopar?

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in the mucuna bottle look for how much l-dopa it contains, that’s how you know. If there is a percentage then you do the calculations. Hope that helps

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Lolo2022 in reply toTayogi

My question is more specific because we do not know the quantity in mg of Mucuna Which passes the blood-brain barrier...

In other words, is 100 mg of Mucuna worth a modopar 62.5 or a modopar 125?

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Tayogi in reply toLolo2022

who knows how much l-dopa from mucuna goes through the BBB. I too take mucuna and this is how it goes for me. The mucuna I take comes in 650 mg caps and it’s 40% l-dopa which it’s 260 mg of l- dopa, I took one of this caps with EGCG green tea extract and quercetin for a few days and found it to be too big of a dose so I started experimenting with lower doses, eventually I found the green tea and quercetin weren’t very reliable so I asked the neuro for carbidopa by it self. The carbidopa comes in 25 mg and I cut it in 8 pieces, I bought a scale and I weight my dose to be around 2 mg, I know it’s very little but it works, same with the mucuna, my current mucuna dose is about 81 mg of natura l-dopa that lasts around 6.5 hours. I now make my own capsules and use very small teaspoons to measure, they go from 1/4 tsp to 1/64 tsp i currently take a bit more than 1/16 tsp. Here is the Amazon link amazon.com/Measuring-Stainl... So this whole story is to say that in my opinion we need to experiment to find the correct mucuna dose which you may already be doing. Here is the mucuna I take barlowesherbalelixirs.com/m...

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Tayogi

i know I didn’t answer your question but hopefully some of what i shared helps.

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If you did not find the answer to your question yet. I can suggest contacting Josh at Rooted Nutrition in Upstate NY. Josh owns this vitamin and herb shop called Rooted Nutrition. Josh is knowledgable and also carries the purest sources of all vitamins and herbs. Hope this may provide a source of help!

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Lolo2022 in reply toDivinebeauty

Hello and thank you for your answer, I don't think this gentleman is of much use to me, because I just took a look at his shop and he does not sell Mucuna

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