Rogan Forums posted:

"The primary ingredient in Alpha Brain is L-dopa (it's the ingredient that people feel / notice the most; it's what causes the lucid dreams). L-dopa works by increasing dopamine levels. If you're under 35 years-old, and you're healthy / normal, you should not take Alpha Brain on a regular basis, because:

Dopamine starts to naturally deplete at around age 35 - 40, which causes the vast majority of side-effects we associate with old-age. Once the depletion begins, it gradually becomes worse with the coming years. If you're under 35, and you're a normal person, your dopamine levels are completely fine. If anything, taking Alpha Brain could be potentially harmful since you'd be causing your dopamine levels to become imbalanced. The older you are, the safer it is to use Alpha Brain without having a doctor supervise you (and monitor your neurotransmitter levels).

I'm not saying you can't take Alpha Brain on certain occasions; for instance: if you're jet-lagged or you partied super hard last night, your dopamine levels may be depleted and you can mess with your neurotransmitter levels without much risk. However, if you are under 35, you should not use Alpha Brain daily; you shouldn't even use it often. It's a very bad idea to alter the levels of vital neurotransmitters when your levels are absolutely fine.

Now let's move back to L-Dopa... I was mind-blown when I found out that virtually no one knows that it is. L-Dopa is a drug, it is only available via prescription, but Aubrey has found a way around the law. He's not putting L-Dopa into Alpha Brain, he's putting an herb that contains L-Dopa into Alpha Brain. Putting the herb into Alpha Brain is totally fine; but putting L-Dopa into Alpha Brain is very illegal. Right now, you should wikipedia "L-Dopa".

First, you'll notice a list of brand-name drugs; the most popular ones in America were Levodopa and Sinemet. They're prescribed to people suffering from Parkinson's. If you scroll down, you'll notice a long list of side-effects that go along with the use of L-Dopa. Calling L-Dopa a drug is totally different from calling Marijuana a drug because L-Dopa really is a drug. Now, if you scroll up to "Therapeutic use", you can read the first sentence of the 2nd paragraph, which says "L-DOPA is converted into dopamine from within the peripheral nervous system". The next sentence is the important one... In laymen terms:

Although L-Dopa is converted into dopamine inside the brain, it's also converted into dopamine outside of the brain; which causes many side-effects. The prescription drug Sinemet contains L-Dopa, but the other thing the pill contains is carbidopa (which is a DDCI); and it contains carbidopa solely to bypass the adverse side-effects caused by the conversion of dopamine outside of the brain. I may be mistaken, but I can't find carbidopa on the list of ingredients in Alpha Brain, which opens up Alpha Brain users to host of adverse side-effects (and decreases the amount of L-Dopa that is converted inside the brain; thereby decreasing the dose).

My father owned an FDA registered, DEA licensed pharmaceutical company that produced very pure supplements (a Vitamin C at least 2x stronger than 100% pure Vitamin C; the only 99+% pure DHEA supplement in the country, etc); and the company developed a few brand-name products. One of those products worked 100% naturally with the body (stimulating the substantia nigra) to restore dopamine levels. Bottom line is: MANY customers who bought this product had previously used Sinemet and levodopa; and they reported definite side-effects from the use of those products.

More importantly: Many people who used the l-dopa drugs reported that it was basically doing nothing for them when they switched to my father's stuff; that's because if you take L-dopa consistently, it begins to build up in the body, and eventually there's some sort of problem with the brain storing dopamine. If you look on the wikipedia article, this issue is addressed at the end of the "Therapeutic Use" section

IT'S VERY disturbing to me that people don't know that L-Dopa is a drug, that they don't know about how how it's toxic (right now, as outlined on Wikipedia, the mainstream will only admit it's toxic on rats; but my father's company was investigating the toxicity over 13 years ago); that they don't know about the list of adverse side-effects; that they don't know that using L-Dopa on a regular basis can put them in a very bad situation later on in life since the brain develops an inability to store dopamine...

Whoa, I just started looking into L-Dopa on the internet to find more information on the brain's inability to store dopamine (because I didn't really know anything beyond that), and I found a few alarming things:

"L-DOPA, may contribute to mitochondrial toxicity in dopaminergic neurons"
-- http://www.lef.org/protocols/neurolo...disease_01.htm

"When the salamanders were treated with L-dopa, the production of new dopamine-producing neurons was almost completely inhibited and the animals were unable to recover"
-- http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases...0408075150.htm

I also found that there is NO supplement or herb that is a DDCI (like carbidopa); so when you take Alpha Brain, the L-Dopa WILL be converted into dopamine OUTSIDE of your brain; increasing the list of side-effects.

I'm just going to post this right now, so that it's at least out there, and post the rest as soon as possible."