Hi all, just a quick question. I was wondering do mucuna pruriens increase dopamine?
I'll tell you about my feelings with capsules of mucuna extract 15% l-dopa, there's mucuna powder (I think I would prefer it) and more powerful extracts, but didn't try so I just can explain my experience with mucuna extract , 1-3 capsules a day
I think it makes you stimulated but in a.... dreamy way, so you don't feel more prone to do anything but more like more focused and more "into it" if you are actually doing something, like you were in mind-state similar to how amphetamines start, like the first 2-3 minutes of the come-up, but without the rush, if that makes sense.
I feel that is sliiiiightly psychedelic in the sense that it makes my perception and mind more clear but in a very soft way. I could compare it to a LSA day-after tho more light and less dreamy.
Maybe like some very light 4f-mph experience? like 2-3mg? could be.. It reminds me that style of stimulation and focus, not pushed but consistent and all-encompassing .
Edit: I forgot! it makes more sexual, increasing my libido but in can increase irritability too, but those traits are very "normal" when you're flood with dopamine, it seems that you don't notice it so much in terms of psychoactivity, cause there's no euphoria at all, but there's a feeling of well-being and confidence when taking it that can be very useful. Specially when you feel like crap for whatever reason. I have that feeling of "Buddha smile" : not really euphoric, not really "happy" but serene and content.
Summing up, that's all I could say about mucuna, I think.