There's something I am wondering for quite some time and figured I would ask the pros: why MDAI doesn't give any sympthom of serotonin depletion being a serotonin releaser? (I'm talking about responsible use and not hammering grams of the stuff at a time). Actually quite the opposite, cause I too experienced a better mood for 2-3 days after bioassay.
I don't remember an answer to this question posted before, if my memory is failing me I apologize.
I feel like I'm missing something on the pharmacodynamics, so maybe someone can enlighten me: let's take the infamous MDMA, it's a serotonin releaser, it does reverse SERT and hence pump the 5-ht out of vescicles, then 5-ht does its job and activate receptors, and then it's destroyed by MAO system. So end of story the 5-ht vescicles are gonna be pretty empty and the brain will be low in 5-ht for some time while the body build up some more. I'm making it very simple and not considering other catecholamine action nor toxicity issues.
Now why this doesn't seem to happen with MDAI? It should still pump out 5-ht, that then should be attacked by MAO and result in 5-ht shortage.
Now the only thing I can think of (in my ingnorance of chemistry and pharmacy) is that somehow with MDAI the 5-ht is not attacked by MAO, so either MDAI is a MAOI, or the 5-ht can slowly go back in the vesicles when SERT action goes back to normal and then it's not wiped out by MAO.
But I'm still


I don't remember an answer to this question posted before, if my memory is failing me I apologize.
I feel like I'm missing something on the pharmacodynamics, so maybe someone can enlighten me: let's take the infamous MDMA, it's a serotonin releaser, it does reverse SERT and hence pump the 5-ht out of vescicles, then 5-ht does its job and activate receptors, and then it's destroyed by MAO system. So end of story the 5-ht vescicles are gonna be pretty empty and the brain will be low in 5-ht for some time while the body build up some more. I'm making it very simple and not considering other catecholamine action nor toxicity issues.
Now why this doesn't seem to happen with MDAI? It should still pump out 5-ht, that then should be attacked by MAO and result in 5-ht shortage.
Now the only thing I can think of (in my ingnorance of chemistry and pharmacy) is that somehow with MDAI the 5-ht is not attacked by MAO, so either MDAI is a MAOI, or the 5-ht can slowly go back in the vesicles when SERT action goes back to normal and then it's not wiped out by MAO.
But I'm still



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