Lowering Glutamate | Pharmaceutical & Drug Options

As many become more aware to the glutamate connection to various health issues, glutamate blocker drugs are becoming more and more abundant.  What is the problem with this?  Here is my understanding of this...Some level of glutamate is necessary, but the problem is excess.  When you block glutamate, you're blocking some of which is necessary, thus additional glutamate receptors are created as the body is scavaging for glutamate.  Increased glutamate receptors, means increased glutamate sensitivity. While REID focuses on lowering/balancing glutamate naturally, some have opted to use pharmaceutical options. Unfortunately in doing this, many have to continually [...]

Lowering Glutamate | Pharmaceutical & Drug Options2021-09-22T11:53:05-04:00

Lowering Glutamate | Acorus Gramineus (Calamus Root aka Sweet Flag)

Acorus Gramineus (Calamus Root aka Sweet Flag) essential oil has shown to inhibit NMDA (glutamate) receptor activity, increase GABA and lower glutamate upon inhalation. We have been able to source this, here.  I will occasionally add this to our diffuser to help calm any crazy days. “These results demonstrated that EO extracted from AGR exhibited neuroprotective effects on cultured cortical neurons through the blockade of NMDA receptor activity, and that the glycine binding site appeared not to be the major site of action. ” http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0024320501009444   “Furthermore, inhalation impressively inhibited the activity of gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA) transaminase, [...]

Lowering Glutamate | Acorus Gramineus (Calamus Root aka Sweet Flag)2021-09-22T12:03:06-04:00
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