| There is a belief in the Autism community, as well | | | | Namenda has been proven useful for issues like |
| as the Alzheimer community and even other | | | | excitability, stimming and sometimes even |
| neurological disorders that glutamate causes over | | | | aggression. |
| activation of the brain. Glutamate is an amino acid | | | | There are two natural alternatives to help with |
| that can be found regularly in our diet. It is also | | | | glutamate sensitivity also. I have talked about |
| found in the brain, in fact the brain has a fairly | | | | elemental or nutritional lithium in a previous |
| high amount of glutamate. As a matter of fact, | | | | recording. This is not the drug lithium, nutritional |
| glutamate is one of the most prevalent amino | | | | lithium has a regulating effect on the NMDA |
| acids in the brain. | | | | receptor when activated by glutamate. Theanine |
| The theory is that some people suffer from a | | | | is also helpful at decreasing glutamate over |
| receptor sensitivity to glutamate. There are | | | | stimulation on brain cells. Theanine is an extract of |
| receptors located on the surface of the brain. | | | | green tea and also regulates the NMDA receptor. |
| Those receptors receive information from other | | | | So again, the theory discusses the over |
| chemicals, similar to the way a key works in a | | | | stimulation of the NMDA receptor from |
| lock. So glutamate is responsible for triggering the | | | | glutamate, leading to hyper excitability. Both lithium |
| NMDA receptor in the brain. When the glutamate | | | | and theanine have been found to be useful for |
| triggers the receptor, it unlocks the electrical | | | | reducing this over excitability. |
| activity in the brain. Then you have the electrical | | | | There are also natural supplements which can be |
| activity in the brain which causes the electrical | | | | helpful for glutamate sensitivity as well. One |
| transmission of chemical impulses, this is all | | | | supplement I have talked about in a previous |
| necessary for normal brain function. | | | | recording called nutritional lithium. This differs from |
| But if glutamate exposure is causing too much | | | | the drug lithium, I am talking about elemental |
| electrical activity, that can result in premature | | | | lithium. Lithium can have a blocking or regulating |
| cellular damage or even premature cellular death. | | | | effect on NMDA receptor activity in response to |
| Through the work of the Alzheimer's community | | | | glutamate. Another option is called Theanine. |
| we know that a predisposition to neurological | | | | Theanine is a green tea extract and can decrease |
| damage and dementia can come from glutamate | | | | glutamate sensitivity by regulating the NMDA |
| hyper activation of the NMDA receptor. Now | | | | receptor as well. It decreases glutamate's over |
| there are a few things that can help with this | | | | stimulation of the brain cell. So both lithium and |
| glutamate over stimulation. | | | | theanine have been found useful at helping reduce |
| Namenda is a medication that blocks NMDA | | | | the hyper excitability in the brain from glutamate |
| receptors and has been used for both Alzheimer's | | | | and the NMDA receptor activity in the brain. |
| and Autism to aid in glutamate sensitivity. | | | | |