Dangerous Supplement. Mucuna Pruriens. Dangerous side effects you must know.

[Thal]

Unregulated, no quality control, and may contain toxic poisonous contaminates.

Lead, heavy metals, mold, fungus etc.

Dosage is impossible to manage.

Counter reaction to carbidopa levodopa is unmanageable and unpredictable.

Makes combining it with real Parkinson's medications a night mare.

Maybe just a weed with a placebo effect wasting time and money while delaying proper medical efforts clinically proven to work.

Would you take Willow bark for a headache instead of aspirin.

Dangerous street drug.

Like playing Russian roulette with one's health.

youtu.be/ll4GRfs6vRI?si=gVO...(Not working as expected?)

Dr Greger has a little positive spin on it but still because of the lack of basic quality control. It is not a good medicine unless one was in third world country and could not afford it.

youtu.be/Sabstgzfcwg?si=KIn...(Not working as expected?)

[gomelgo]

mucunaparkinson.com/

[Windermere1 in reply to gomelgo]

thank you for posting this. It is very informative

[Thal in reply to gomelgo]

Terrain may be different than the map

[Thal in reply to gomelgo]

BTW good map.

[Ghmac in reply to gomelgo]

Thank you for posting this. Lots of good information!!

[Windermere1]

May I suggest that as PD sufferers we are encouraged to do our own research and with neurologist guidance take whatever steps work for each of us. I have added mucus to my regime with great success so please stop scare mongering. And read the excellent report posted by Gomelgo

[Thal in reply to Windermere1]

Precisely

[Gcf51]

Same risks as all supplements, use a brand you trust.

[Thal in reply to Gcf51]

Right maybe a good supplement but medicine? I don't know?

[Esperanto]

I am not a Mucuna user, but this is pure deception. The first video shows that Mucuna Pruriens contains the "dangerously addictive" L-dopa 😉 but also valuable substances, which happen to also be present in the supplements of…. "ergogenic health". It is pure scaremongering to sell their training sessions, consultations, and Corporate Wellness Packages 🤑💰

The second video actually shows the remarkably good results with Mucuna, but it emphasizes once again the unreliable amount of L-dopa in different supplements. This is true, but it is based on a limited study from 2018. Since then, there has been a new and more extensive study that have once again identified this issue. It is careless Dr. Greger and this problem is separate from the potential effectiveness of Mucuna. I can safely grow my own Mucuna Pruriens beans!

jamanetwork.com/journals/ja...

[Thal in reply to Esperanto]

Right. My failure was that I tried to treat it as a med, should have been as a good bean.

[Thal in reply to Esperanto]

BTW I love my fava beans and when I can get them frozen green fava beans are great. Fresh very seldom.

Threw out all my Mucuna . Awful taste and couldn't get it right.

[freefallmode]

I took the Now brand of Mucuna for years and found it reliable and effective. It's in capsule form so no need to worry about the taste.

I used in a ratio of 50% Mucuna/50% Madopar (some C/L drug is needed as Mucuna hardly gets to the brain at all without carbidopa.)

[Thal in reply to freefallmode]

Tried it . Failed. Threw half bottle out

[freefallmode]

Did you take it with carbidopa in some form? I tried taking up to about 5 capsules by itself and it did nothing. But 1 capsule with carbidopa worked better than my normal meds.

[Thal in reply to freefallmode]

With madopar failed

[Windermere1 in reply to Thal]

With Madopar success

[17Hillview]

This is scare mongering. You cannot make blanket statements about a product that is produced by many different manufacturers - some reputable. Everyone should do those own research and be wary of users like this.