sladerunner69
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What do we think would be the best supplements for the treatment of alcohol addiction.
Subject in question (not me) has all the classical symptoms of an organism trying to lower stress hormones and alcohol is the poison of choice. Clearly it is a vicious cycle for while the alcohol creates a temporary relief it makes it worse by increasing things like serotonin and cortisol and requiring a bigger dose as time goes on.
My thoughts would be supplements that lower cortisol, estrogen, serotonin and supplements that increase dopamine.
I want to use as few supplements as possible as subject in question is unlikely to want to take lots of supplements.
I believe that serotonin from poor gut health is one of the primary causes of addicition in this case.
The primary supplements I have looked at are; Lisuride, Metergoline and Ritanserin. Secondary ones are pregnenalone, dhea, and b vitamins such as thiamine and niacinamide.
My questions are if I were to pick just one of these supplements which would be the best one? I was thinking Metergoline or Lisuride, however I am worried about dopamine dependency.
Yeah I think focusing on the gut and liver are the most important when recovering from alcohol abuse. Niacinimide can definitely help with digestion, maybe 500mg 1-3x daily, and eating only easy to digest foods. Vitamin k2 and caffiene for liver health. Glycine/gelatin has well documented benefits for both the gut and liver. Activated charcoal + Peat's carrot salad to clear out endotoxin build up. Lysine to further lower serotonin. Tyrosine to increase dopamine. Taurine for liver/dopamine benefits as well. Pregnenlone as a general anti stress/anti depressant measure. The time I have boozed while taking pregnenlone I felt terrible though, same with DHEA.