| Hormonal Treatment Of Depression With Phenylethylamine (PEA) |
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PEA treatment rapidly restores well-being.
Mild as well as severe forms of depression may have a simple cause, and a simple cure. A brain hormone, phenylethlamine (PEA), promotes energy and elevates mood. A deficiency in PEA renders the person weak, tired, sluggish, and depressed. Taking PEA rapidly restores well-being. PEA is a natural, physiological treatment of depression.
Our clinical observations indicate that 60% of depressed patients have a reduction in PEA metabolism, and that PEA is effective in 60% of depressed patients. PEA relieves depression very fast, in a matter of hours or days, and produces no toxic effects, tolerance or abuse.
In other words, depression is an illness very much like diabetes. In diabetes there is a (relative) deficiency of insulin, and it is treated by administering insulin. An even closer analogy is hypothyroidism. Thyroid hormones sustain bodily energy; their deficit produces a characteristic syndrome that includes depression in the adult, and mental retardation in the child. Likewise 2-phenylethylamine (PEA) is a neurohormone that sustains psychological energy. A large group of depressions, sixty percent of them, it seems, are due to a (relative) deficit in PEA, and can be treated by giving PEA.
Fortunately, unlike insulin, PEA can be taken by mouth. However, PEA is rapidly destroyed in the body. To prevent its rapid destruction, it must be protected by the simultaneous administration of low doses of selegiline (Eldepryl), a medication used in elderly people to slow down the progress of Parkinson disease.
PEA controls depression in 60% of depressed persons--the same percentage as all major antidepressants such as Prozac--but it is less toxic.
PEA is by no means a panacea that controls all depressions, but it may deserve to be used as the first treatment to try because it acts fast, and it can be used for long periods of time without fear of harmful consequences such as weight gain, sexual inhibition, and other common side effects of antidepressant drugs. This is because PEA replacement is a physiological treatment of depression.
Advantages of PEA Treatment Over Other Current Treatments for Depression/p>
PEA controls depression in 60% of depressed persons--the same percentage as all major antidepressants such as Prozac--but it is less toxic.
Although there are many treatments for depression, PEA treatment has four advantages over current treatments.
PEA acts very rapidly, in a matter of hours or days, instead of weeks. A rapid treatment for depression would be an extremely useful tool to reduce disability, to shorten medical treatment, and to prevent suicide. Particularly important is the fact that PEA is very effective in bipolar patients, as this illness represents a high risk for suicide.
PEA practically has no side effects or toxicity; selegiline is given at very small doses, as used to slow down the progress of Parkinson's disease in the elderly.
PEA treatment is effective in types of depression that do not respond well to standard antidepressants; in turn, standard pharmacological agents act in depressions for which phenylethylamine is not effective.
Because PEA directly restores a neurohormone that is in deficit, it may be more effective and less likely to have long-term toxic effects than medications which have more complex and indirect actions.
Particularly important is the fact that PEA is very effective in bipolar patients, as this illness is life long.
Research Studies on the use of PEA in Depression
The reduction in PEA metabolism in 60 % of depressed patients has been demonstrated in over 200 patients.
Sabelli, H.C., Fawcett, J, Gusovsky, F. et al (1986). Clinical studies on the phenylethylamine hypothesis of affective disorder, Journal of Clinical Psychiatry, 47, 66-70.
This reduction in PEA metabolism with depression has been confirmed by three other research groups who studied psychiatric patients.
Sandler, et al, in the UK, 1979, (Clin Chim Acta, 93,169-171.
A.B. Levy in her 1991 study of 146 jail inmates ( A Clinical Study of the Urinary Phenylacitic Acid (PAA) Test of Depression in Prison Inmates, Brigham Young University.
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  written by eddie hinton, December 15, 2009
im interested in this article what is the dosage amount daily
written by Cydnie, October 19, 2010
This is a great and interesting article which must be giving many people hope but doesn't give any info on how much and what to take it with (also it is extremely hard to find PEA alone, so you must try finding it either in another form, or find it with many other things). Would have been better to give info on how to try this!
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