Unhappy? Are You Ready to Feel Great?!! The Mood Cure: Amino Acids and Their Incredible Impact on Moods

Sounds like a good formula overall.

Not sure caffeine would be neurotransmitter-friendly, but probably not too bad. I drink caffeine and still get great results from taking my aminos.

Also, I'm wondering how much of the active herbal ingredients such as 5-HTP it has in it:

"Proprietary Blends
Happy Pills Mood Complex
St. John's Wort (leaf and Flower)[std to .3% hypericin], Caffeine (as Anhydrous), 5-HTP (5-hydroxytryptophan from Griffonia Simplicifolia seed extract), N-Acetyl-Tyrosine, SAMe (S-adenosyl-methionine), Huperzine A (whole herb)"

BTW... GREAT NAME for it! I saw a similar product called "Happy Camper" though I don't recall what was in that.

yes i wondered that too..

I knew somebody would fall over the caffeine in it :) also the amount not mentioned, but i recall to have read somewhere one pill contains 100mg (same amount of 2 cups of coffee). It definitely gives you the right amount of energie and focus while working or exercising. Also you don't have that "rushed" feeling you normally would have drinking 2 or more cups of coffee. Probably due to the other ingredients in it.

Thanks for sharing your positive experience with GABA! GABA's amazing stuff. Really works to relax me fast, but makes me feel almost intoxicated so I have to be careful not to overdo it.

GABA also does wonders if I'm in the middle of a neurotransmitter meltdown where I feel really irritable and am hell on wheels (usually after eating badly the day before). I take one of those GABAs and I'm totally chilled.

Here's a GREAT interview/article that Dr. Mercola just put out today on Vitamin D and sun exposure:

[link to articles.mercola.com]

Thanks again for posting the first positive comment! :-D

No problem! Many people are starting to look for alternative methods to treat psychological disorders/imbalances. I have used many different balancing techniques and supplements to help cope with many of the environmental stressors around me that seem to bring my energy and mental psych down! Sunlight exposure is critical for vitamin D production in the body :) It is essential for calcium absorption and metabolic processes!!

You know, I never really "got" how important sunlight was until today after watching that Dr. Mercola interview. I figured I could get all my D from taking a liquid D-3 supplement and so didn't really need sunlight. It turns out, 9 additional steroids are created when you sunbathe. They only know a little bit about ONE... vitamin D... and have no idea about the other 9. GREAT point he makes. Perhaps it really IS important to get some sunshine! I, for one, spend much of my time indoors. I get very little D production from sunlight. But, I'm going to make an effort to get lots more next year when the sun angle is at least 50 degrees again (Dr. Mercola gives a link to a US Navy site for determining times when the angle of the sun is at 50% or more, which is the minimum angle required to get the D-production going).

Again, thank you. Good post.

Vitamin D kicks butt in all respects. To me, it's one of the top 5 supplements a person can take, if not in the top 3. I put Protandim up there, too, for how well it trigger's the body's antioxidant systems and basically resets the aging process back to when you were 18 years old (some say back to the oxidation rate of an infant).

Glad you were learning something new. And, I was waiting for someone to post something ignorant like this. You see, aminos help balance you out from "false moods" created by neurotransmitter imbalances. They don't take away all your normal, natural feelings such as feeling annoyed when you realize you may be wasting your precious time trying to help those who just want to bitch and moan instead of actually reading what's been written and perhaps getting the book, contemplating it, and maybe even trying it out. I just don't like wasting my time. I have too much to do.

My posting this was a courtesy that I figured may help a few people. It wasn't to win a popularity contest or avoid disagreements. But when every post is negative and complaining then, damn straight, I'm going to point it out so the thread either gets back on a more positive track or I just let it be and move on to more important things.

Thanks for your comment. I was expecting it.

I always love the threads on GLP about natural health. Very useful area for study and experimentation.

Stay away from doctors - they'll kill you.

Learn to think for yourself and try things to see what works.

Do a lot of reading and investigation and spend some money on your health.

Hospitals are lethally dangerous places, you want to stay out of them no matter what, do whatever it takes to care for your health on your own without poisonous pharmaceutical drugs!

Prevention is the key.

i concur with amino acids being the answer to depression; i tried everything vit d [helped a tiny bit]; st johns you name it; tried to eat raw diet; no wheat diet; etc etc etc. Nothing every worked; i was down all the time for no reason. I tried theanine with some other stuff; it works perfect; in fact better than smoking you know what.

Don't forget -- probiotics also improve your mood:

[link to www.peakhealthadvocate.com]

I found that sun angle thing, thank you, that's very helpful. I wasn't aware about the 50% angle for Vitamin D production. In my part of the world the 50% sun angle seems to line up almost exactly with the beginning of spring to the end of summer. So I guess its too late to get any Vitamin D until next spring :D

I have often suspected that I have pyroluria.
But I don't buy the genetic defect explanation. I don't want to be geneticly defective. That's a defeating belief.
Rather I suspect parasites.
And intend to chase them out by megadosing SSKI.

OP, just want to say, that I am finding your information very helpful and informative. I will be looking into amino acids, and the book as well. Thank you very much.

i concur with amino acids being the answer to depression; i tried everything vit d [helped a tiny bit]; st johns you name it; tried to eat raw diet; no wheat diet; etc etc etc. Nothing every worked; i was down all the time for no reason. I tried theanine with some other stuff; it works perfect; in fact better than smoking you know what.

Great thread OP. I take 5-HTP often, I really like it. It also depletes my appetite so thats a bonus.

I did notice though, if I take it at bedtime, I will be awake all night, thats not the norm, but thats what happens to me.

<--- I work indoors as well. I try to walk outside in the afternoon after work to get some good rays :) I also use Earthing gear to make sure I stay grounded and protected from electromagnetic fields in my environment (TVs, computers, cell phones, ANY wireless). They can TOTALLY zap the energy right out of you, along with increasing the rate of oxidative stress on many levels.

The pineal gland senses electromagnetic fields as light, this then reduces melatonin (sleep hormone, along with very powerful antioxidant in the body). As fake light increases all around us we have to make sure to try and balance with as many good rays as we can. Also, grounding any static electricity that can be detrimental to the body.

I love talking about this stuff. I don't think people realize how emotions/mental state have have a VERY real effect on the human body.


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I have been reading some good things about theanine. It is abundant in green tea and in black tea as well. So that may be a good reason to have a few cups a day.

Nutrient Power

by William J. Walsh PHD
Walsh Research Institute

[link to www.amazon.com]

[link to www.walshinstitute.org]

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Oh Lord, I'm ready to close this thread. The comments are almost all negative and whining about "be careful"... "it doesn't work for me"... "it has this negative effect." Well, blah, blah, blah. Don't ANY of you READ???? My post said READ THE BOOK! It covers all of this already!

The book TOTALLY goes into FOOD and what to eat and what not to.

I'm done talking to a wall of people that can't even read and just want to spew what they think they "know" without looking at what's already been stated. I don't have time to rebut everything posted here when I've already said... READ THE BOOK. That's all. Read it. Covers EVERYTHING everyone here has brought up. ALL very good and valid points, but if you would just READ my post, you'll see that I'm not saying it's a "magic bullet" or that one should just go and "self-medicate" themselves without first educating themselves further. All I'm doing here is pointing people in the direction of a possible "cure" for what, for many, is completely debilitating.

You know what? If I had read this thread prior to getting the book, I NEVER would have gotten the book, much less tried taking aminos and would still be suffering. That's how NOT HELPFUL most of these comments here are, because they are mostly on the negative side, instead of looking at the many, many people helped by taking a simple amino acid. You could be depriving someone of the help they need because of some irrational fear over amino acids. To me, that's insane. Drugs are far, far worse, and over 40% of America is on some form of phychotropic drug at this point. Do you think that's better than taking aminos?

Yes, of course you should educate yourself first on potential side effects and contraindications. You should do that with any supplement. But, the book goes into that, and I stated all that in my OP.

See ya later. You geniuses can figure this out on your own I suppose. Done trying to help unless someone starts posting something positive here that is encouraging versus discouraging.

Not ONE positive comment. All complaints and warnings. I have to ask...



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That's awesome to hear. Congratulations on finding what works for you. Many people never do.

I take theanine from time to time. It helps create feelings of well-being. Do you have any good info on that you can share on theanine? I don't know a lot about it, but a nutritionist recommended it to me.

One thing I heard about it is that it increases the brain's (or brian's, for you GLPers) Alpha waves. This is why it's so relaxing I suppose, as most are living in Beta 99% of their day. And, Alpha is really good for tapping into greater mind power (as in the Silva Method, which teaches you to access the alpha state prior to visualizing).