The feeling is quite pleasurable taken with an MAOI (EMSAM transdermal selegiline [deprenyl] in my case) but caution should be exercised.. anything past 150mg can raise blood pressure to a substantial degree. I'm taking enough selegiline so that it's inhibiting both MAO-A and MAO-B isozymes, but from what I've heard from other people, low doses of deprenyl can cause the same problems. Start slow and be careful; shortness of breath, stiff neck, headache (particularly in occipital region) can be signs that you've had too much. That said, the combination is very nice. I find mixing it with ascorbic acid (vitamin C--I use emergen-C type drink powders which contain quite a few other substances) either increases its effectiveness or speeds up its absorption.
Other people have questioned the purity of the product. Not much information is supplied by BN. There are suggestions on other sites for removing any possible adulterants. Pure PEA is very basic and is a liquid, I don't know what is used to produce the powder but some people have wondered whether it hasn't been fully reacted, leaving traces of HCl or something else..
Good luck trying to find it anywhere else, though (especially as a salt). Extracts from chocolate are probably a waste considering how many other substances are present in chocolate (including a good deal of tyramine, which isn't very smart to mix with even a low dose MAOI); the PEA content is very low compared to caffeine, theobromine, theophylline, and other substances that you're not going to want to take in large doses. |
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