My friend,
Drop all the supplements. I had exactly the same symptoms as you minus extensive bloodwork. I just had regular CBP, according to which I was healthy.
1) What MAO inhibitor does? It inhibits Monoamine Oxidase. MAO will oxidase your neurotransmitter (break them down, leaving H2O or H2O2 and h2o2 is hydrogen peroxide and toxic to the brain cells) So MAO inhibitor increases the amount of floating and available for reuptake dopamine, serotonin etc.
2) You also take tyrosin which is a precursor to dopamine. So you have more readily available dopamine.
3) Increased dopamine and decreased enzyme that breaks it down results in overabundanse of dopamine.
4) Overabundanse of dopamine results in ***DECREASED RECEPTOR ACTIVITY*** This, I want you to take home, becasue even if your tests show X amount of Neurotransmitters it doesn't mean those NT's doing jack shit becasue receptor won't accept them. That's something like when you were taking anabolics and didn't have same results as your friend. Your receptors are shut down. When somene is screaming at you, naturaly you tend to cover your ears because there is too much stress on your ear drums. You have to reverse this process to when you can barely hear someone you naturaly tend to turn your ear towards that person in order to pick up vibration waves.
5) Why do you think you have such high numbers on your test? Those hormones are not stimulating hormones. So it means that you are not shut down. Example: If your Thyroid works ok producing enough t3, you TSH (thyroid stimulating hormone) will be let's say 2. Now if you are lacking t3, your TSH will be much higher, 5-7.
6) Before your body used to function normally on X amount of hormones/NT's. Now after your receptors are downregulated, your body needs XXX amount of hormones for the same response. And abnormal amount of ONE hormone/nt will weck the harmony in your system.
Back in the old days I was abusing all kinds of heavy rec drugs. After I quit that and started working out. Once in a while I had this flashback of apathy, depression, no motivation. So I started supplementing with stablon, cerebrolisyn, l-deprenyl, l-dopa etc. It was a fix, I started feeling better, much better, but it was a short fix. After a year I needed larger doses to have an edge. I liked it, it was like being on amphetamines, sharp, quick but then my body got used to it and this edge just became normal. When I quit all those supps, I went natural route with tyrosine, green tea extract, etc. Wellp, I got so lethargic I would stay in bed for 2 days and would get up only to piss and eat. It lasted a month, after that I started having extreme headaches ( I think due to NT disbalance). Only after that, I decided to quit all pills alltogether, and wouldn't put anything in my body unless it was food. Slowly but surely I leveled out and now I am back in the gym, all natural. My motivation and overall feeling is like back when I was 16 (i'm 29 now). I am getting out of house to socialize, I can't even hardly read news online because I feel like i'd better do something around the house. I don't even drink coffee now.
Moral of the story is: Drop all the bullshit. Drugs and supplements got you in this and to get out of it you need to go back to the time before the cause. LOL, kind of like Windows System Restore to an earlier point. Our bodies are amazing machines, the best. Give it a shot and your body will normalize itself. It might take you a month, year or 2 years, we are all different but eventually it will be ok. Just don't get on your body's way. Let it do it's job.
As a motivatioanl kick I will add this: I have some friends that were abusing chrytal meth for 10+ years. They are clean now, it was a bitch for most of them. One recovered in six month to were he just started moving beyond his house territory. Another one took 2 years. But now it has been 5 years for them and they feel and look normal. All natural!!! What they did was a nuclear war on their brains but they recovered and so will you.
Have faith and God Bless you all,
TT
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