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One thing I forgot to mention, KAYLA:
The most glaring issue scientists take with this whole "neurotransmitter deficiency" thing, aside from a complete lack of experimental evidence, is that ACh and serotonin are two among a wide variety of small-molecule neurotransmitters that your brain is exceptionally skilled at conserving by way of multiple ingenious [if an action a flesh machine performs mindlessly could be called "ingenious"] processes, among them plasmalemmal reuptake (reusing), enzymatic degradation and re-synthesis (recycling), and tight conservation (reducing). Each of these principles should be familiar to you - they are each conceptually mirrored by the natural resource conservation movement, with a similar, albeit more macroscopic goal in common with your neurons. This, alongside the relatively minuscule number of molecules necessary for a neuron to achieve transmission of a chemical message, leaves me understandably skeptical.
And yeah, you're right about one thing - choline is dietarily necessary, but through ingestion of the small amounts available in an average diet, there's no reason you should be pathologically deficient. Are you a vegetarian? Do you eat eggs? Is your liver failing? Do you have high blood/serum lipids? Are you suffering from a debilitating neuromuscular syndrome? If not, chances are you don't have a choline deficiency. Those latter three are the most prominent of the recognized symptoms, and unless that's what you experience day to day, I think you might want to go back to the drawing board. No comment on the dysautonomia.
So...do you have any peer-reviewed academic references to corroborate the highly controversial content of your posts?
The most glaring issue scientists take with this whole "neurotransmitter deficiency" thing, aside from a complete lack of experimental evidence, is that ACh and serotonin are two among a wide variety of small-molecule neurotransmitters that your brain is exceptionally skilled at conserving by way of multiple ingenious [if an action a flesh machine performs mindlessly could be called "ingenious"] processes, among them plasmalemmal reuptake (reusing), enzymatic degradation and re-synthesis (recycling), and tight conservation (reducing). Each of these principles should be familiar to you - they are each conceptually mirrored by the natural resource conservation movement, with a similar, albeit more macroscopic goal in common with your neurons. This, alongside the relatively minuscule number of molecules necessary for a neuron to achieve transmission of a chemical message, leaves me understandably skeptical.
And yeah, you're right about one thing - choline is dietarily necessary, but through ingestion of the small amounts available in an average diet, there's no reason you should be pathologically deficient. Are you a vegetarian? Do you eat eggs? Is your liver failing? Do you have high blood/serum lipids? Are you suffering from a debilitating neuromuscular syndrome? If not, chances are you don't have a choline deficiency. Those latter three are the most prominent of the recognized symptoms, and unless that's what you experience day to day, I think you might want to go back to the drawing board. No comment on the dysautonomia.
So...do you have any peer-reviewed academic references to corroborate the highly controversial content of your posts?
