Full Transcript Introduction to Amino Acid Therapy 0:00 You know, watching the trialing process, because I know a lot of you have followed me for a long time. 0:03 You're like, what is this amino acid therapy? 0:05 And you know how crazy is it? 0:07 Does it really work? 0:08 Is it placebo? 0:09 I don't know. 0:10 But I will tell you, it's definitely not placebo. 0:12 It works really well. 0:13 Welcome to Take Back My Brain with Lori Hammer, where real healing starts in the brain. 0:20 I'm Lori, a functional nutritionist and mom who's walked the path from anxiety and burnout to clarity and calm. 0:29 Each week, we're going to dive into brain-based tools like amino acid therapy, gut health, fasting and faith to help you reclaim your energy, 0:38 emotions and sense of self. 0:47 Hello, everyone. 0:49 Welcome back to Take Back My Brain. 0:51 I'm so excited today because we are meeting with Brenda Munt and we're actually going to do a live amino acid trialing session with her so all of you can 1:03 experience what this is like. 1:05 So I was on Brenda's podcast, Heartache, Health and Healing. 1:10 And so that'll be in the show notes. 1:12 You can all get that. 1:15 you know, that interview. 1:16 And then Brenda, welcome to the podcast. 1:20 Thank you. 1:20 Awesome. 1:22 Tell the audience just a little bit about yourself and then we'll kind of dive into like, we will dive in to Amino Acid Triline, 1:29 but tell them why you're here. 1:30 So I am a I'm a breath coach. 1:39 I am a podcast. 1:41 And I've gone through my own helium journey, all surrounded around a major loss in my life. 1:55 Gone on this, the last four years have been all about personal development. 2:00 I mean, I've always been into it, but now I just kind of like really went deep into all aspects of it from the emotional healing aspect of, 2:07 and from be health perspective of. 2:10 Because with being by myself, don't have any kids and everything. 2:13 And I see my parents age and my in-laws age, see their decrease in health. 2:19 and I want to be as healthy as possible as I get older. 2:23 And so you had presented this and the immunoisotherapy had sounded extremely interesting.
Brenda's Background and Trial Setup 2:29 And yeah, I'm really excited for this. 2:32 Awesome, awesome. 2:34 Okay, so I am going to, now normally I don't have time to do the whole appointment that I normally do with Brenda. 2:41 We're just gonna do them amino acid section. 2:43 So I'd normally get a really good long health history. 2:45 I know she's not on any medications. 2:47 She's doing some basic supplementation. 2:49 so, I'm just going ask some very specific questions that are on the amino-acid therapy assessment form that i use. 2:57 And so Brenda, I want you to answer these on a scale of zero to 10. So zero meaning you never have these symptoms, and 10, they happen pretty much all 3:08 the time or very, very frequent, okay? 3:10 Okay. 3:11 Okay, so amino acid therapy, for those of you that don't know, one, listen to Brenda's podcast. 3:16 If you're on her podcast, if you are on my podcast you should know what amino-acid therapy is because you've heard it a lot. 3:22 So this is where we balance the brain with specific amino acids in therapeutic doses. 3:29 So and we really target the neurotransmitters that affect our mood. 3:35 And so once those are more balanced, those were more nourished, the neurology in our brain and our body is calmer, then more healing can happen. 3:43 So that is the goal of amino acid therapy to calm all this crazy down and then everything below the neck gets easier to heal. 3:53 Here we go. 3:55 These are symptoms of low serotonin, so this is a seratonin section for all of you listening. 4:01 So zero to 10, Brenda, negative thoughts or attitudes? 4:05 So 10 is like bad, right? 4:07 10 as the worst, yes. 4:08 That's the worse. 4:09 Let's see, four. 4:11 Okay. 4:13 Depression. 4:14 I'd say that'd be three. 4:16 Worry or obsessive thoughts? 4:22 Uh, that's probably more up around the eight mark. 4:25 Okay. 4:26 Fair enough. 4:28 Um, anxiety. 4:29 I'm seven. 4:30 Seven. 4:32 A need to control situations. 4:34 Oh boy. 4:38 That is probably around eight. 4:42 Perfectionist. 4:48 Yeah, I am. 4:48 that is off the charts because I have a big perfectionist Got it. 4:53 Panic attacks? 4:56 That I would say, that's probably down around two. 5:00 Phobias? 5:06 Three, because I do have a fear of drowning. 5:08 Okay. 5:09 Struggle to fall asleep? 5:12 I'm going to say two Okay Difficulty staying asleep. 5:19 That's a nine. 5:20 That's a nine. 5:20 All right, obsessive behaviors. 5:23 Actually, that's probably a 10. Obsessive Behaviors or OCD?
Low Serotonin and Tryptophan Trial 5:30 Probably like a three. 5:33 Three, okay. 5:34 Easily irritated or lose your temper quickly? 5:36 I'd say three Okay. 5:41 PMS? 5:43 One, I don't deal with it. 5:46 Okay, then we're good. 5:47 And then need for sugar, starch or alcohol after lunch or dinner? 5:53 Five. 5:53 Five, okay. 5:55 So what I'm looking for when we ask these questions is, do you have anything over a two? 6:00 We definitely have things over two. 6:03 So we're going to try, our first supplement is going be L-tryptophan. 6:09 L tryptophane is an amino acid, it's for serotonin. 6:14 And what Brenda's going do is she's gonna take the capsule, she is gonna open up the capsules and put the contents under her tongue because when you put 6:23 things under your tongue, they absorb very quickly. 6:25 And it's a neurological signal to the brain. 6:28 It's not like you're absorbing all the nutrients that are in there, but it signals the very brain quickly and then we'll know if her body's going to like 6:36 this particular supplement or not in like two to five minutes. 6:40 Let me just do one. 6:42 Do one to start. 6:42 Yep. 6:43 I feel like a mess here. 6:45 All right. 6:46 They get a little messy. 6:48 You'll end up with powder on your chin and your chest. 6:53 It's fine. 6:54 So all of these symptoms that we just read off, these are for low serotonin. 7:01 If you want to go back and catch those again and number yourself on the way down the chart, you'll be like, oh, that's me. 7:08 That's not me, but that one is definitely me under the tongue. 7:16 So if you're not watching on YouTube and this is, you know, just audio, your missing a lot because she's got a bunch of powder across her face right now. 7:25 So we're going to leave the powder under the tongue. 7:29 And what we are looking for, Brenda, is do you notice something different cognitively, emotionally, or physically? 7:40 And I won't tell you what you probably will experience because then I'm planting things into your head, right? 7:45 And so I want it to be as organic and real as possible. 7:50 And if any of you experienced like a long pause, no, we are still here. 7:54 I am just letting her absorb and think about what's going on and it doesn't taste good. 8:00 That one does not taste. 8:02 Good. 8:02 Yeah. 8:03 But I've never had anybody throw up and, you know, a couple of decades, so we're good Hey friend, just a quick break to remind you if calming your brain 8:10 is the missing piece in your practice or in you're home, my Mind Thrive certification course teaches you exactly how to do that with targeted amino acid therapy. 8:20 So it's real science, real results, no band-aids. 8:23 Enrollment is now open. 8:24 Link is in the show notes. 8:26 Back to the Show. 8:29 The one thing I noticed is I feel a little more relaxed. 8:32 Good. 8:33 Not as tense. 8:34 That's awesome. 8:35 I mean, that's what we're going for. 8:37 It's the first thing. 8:38 The first that I notice. 8:42 Can you say where you feel relaxed and not tense? 8:46 Actually, my neck and shoulders, which is huge for me. 8:50 So I carry a lot of tension there. 8:51 Do you? 8:52 Good, anything else? 8:58 My headache. 9:00 Is it gone? 9:02 It's decreased immensely. 9:04 Good. 9:04 I have chronic headaches. 9:09 Do you? 9:10 Yeah, a lot of times I don't want to have a headache. 9:12 Okay. 9:12 Well, I'm sorry to hear that. 9:15 Glad that's helping with that, so that is a great response to L-tryptophan. 9:21 That's this very positive response. 9:23 It means your body really, really likes it, and so, that a supplement that we'll probably end up using. 9:27 You can go ahead and take a drink if you want. 9:30 You're like, please let me wash that down. 9:37 Okay, now I'm going to ask you questions again on 0 to 10. This section is in low GABA symptoms, okay? 9:46 Okay. 9:46 And GABA. 9:47 So serotonin is like our inner sunshine. 9:49 It just helps us to feel nice and relaxed and good and happy. 9:53 GAB is what lets us take a deep breath and kind of let the stress roll off. 9:56 Okay? 9:58 So scale of 0 to 10, chronic stress or burnt out? 10:06 Chronic stress. 10:07 0-10? 10:09 Right now I'd have to say 8. Difficulty relaxing or decompressing from the day? 10:17 Six. 10:18 Trouble getting to sleep? 10:21 I'm going to say two. 10:24 You seek sugar, starch, alcohol, or other substances for stress relief? 10:29 Maybe four. 10:31 Feeling overwhelmed often? 10:34 Seven. 10:36 Tense muscles or feeling stiff regularly? 10:40 Nine. 10:41 All right. 10:42 So again, we're looking, do we have anything over two? 10:44 And yes we do. 10:46 We're going to find the supplement GABA. 10:49 Okay.
Low GABA and Relaxation Response 10:52 Got it. 10:52 Awesome. 10:53 Go ahead and open that capsule again. 10:55 Put the contents under your tongue. 10:57 This one tastes better. 10:58 It's more like a citrusy kind of feel to it and it kind has a taste to and then it has like texture of a pixie stick. 11:08 I still have a bad taste in my mouth from the other one. 11:10 I know. 11:10 That one kind of lingers. 11:11 But I like to do that one first, because I think it's the worst tasting one, so we just get it out of the way. 11:16 Well, thank you for that. 11:17 No problem. 11:18 Okay. 11:21 Let's see. 11:22 Where else? 11:24 I have little kids that can do this, I so I can know you can. 11:30 Do it. 11:31 Yeah. 11:32 And that will probably dissolve in your mouth fairly quickly. 11:36 So don't be alarmed at that. 11:37 But again, we're looking, Brenda, do you notice anything different cognitively, emotionally, or physically? 11:44 So what feels different to you? 11:48 The first thing that I noticed was the continuation of the less tension in my shoulders and neck. 11:59 Okay, good. 12:02 Anything else? 12:04 To have a very relaxed feeling. 12:05 Just relaxed overall. 12:11 That is good. 12:11 As soon as we're off here tonight, Brenda's going to just go to bed. 12:16 Pretty much. 12:17 He's gonna be so relaxed. 12:20 Oh my goodness. 12:21 This is great. 12:22 Okay. 12:23 Yeah. 12:23 You ready to move on to the next section? 12:29 Yes. 12:30 Perfect. 12:31 Okay. 12:31 This is catecholamines. 12:33 So our catochole means, I mean, dopamine is a part of that, but there are like our driver that helps us to, you know, like concentrate and have our like 12:42 internal drive, the want to you, know in life, basically. 12:46 Um, so zero of, or scale of zero to 10, zero, never 10. You feel this way all the time. 12:53 Indifference or apathetic depression? 13:00 I'd say one. 13:03 One. 13:04 Okay. 13:05 A low energy or fatigue? 13:07 Probably five. 13:09 Low mental fatigue or low mental energy is what I meant. 13:13 Five to six. 13:16 Difficulty concentrating? 13:17 I feel like a four. 13:21 ADD or ADHD? 13:23 To three. 13:28 need for coffee, caffeine, cigarettes, chocolate, or anything else to improve your focus? 13:34 I'm going to say five because I do have caffeine right away in the morning, but I think it's a game that I play with my cell phone. 13:40 Fair enough. 13:41 All right. 13:42 Last one in this section, little or lacking motivation? 13:47 Maybe three. 13:47 Three? 13:48 Okay. 13:50 Great. 13:51 Okay, so again, we're looking for something over a two. 13:53 We have winners. 13:57 So I want you to find L-tyrosine. 14:04 And again you're going to want to open up the packet or open of the capsule and put the contents under your tongue. 14:10 This one tastes a little bit kind of chalky, but it's not bad. 14:16 So I just have a tyrosine. 14:17 I don't have an L. 14:19 That's okay. 14:20 Just tyresine is what you're going for. 14:22 Yep. 14:22 Oh, okay, Okay. 14:23 The L must not have made it on the label. 14:27 Tyrosines. 14:28 It is right at the edge, so. 14:30 Gotcha. 14:32 Okay, come on fingers. 14:35 that one can be a tiny bit sticky. 14:37 And again, all of you listening, if you hear a pause, we are still here. 14:42 Waiting for Brenda to get the capsule open. 14:48 So this is so fun. 14:49 I love doing this, I've been doing a very long time and about 90% of the people that I see respond to at least one or more amino acids in this trialing
Catecholamines and Tyrosine Trial 15:03 session and so we get to start right away with people having calmer brains, more focused, less anxiety, and less tension like Brenda and her neck and shoulders. 15:16 So you get wins right away when you're doing this amino acid therapy and it's just a lot of fun because we just want people to have fun and to enjoy life 15:27 and she does have powder all over her face. 15:32 And that's okay. 15:33 That is the fun part for me because I get to watch people do this all day long. 15:39 If you talk when have a bunch of powder in your mouth, it kind of poofs out like a fire breathing dragon. 15:46 But that's good. 15:48 And anybody can use amino acids of all ages. 15:51 I've had parents do a little bit of amino acid with some babies even, because everybody can be deficient in amino assets. 15:58 We need amino-acids head to toe for everything in our body, our hair, skin, and nails, or organs, blood, enzymes, hormones. 16:08 Everything in your body needs aminoacid. 16:10 So that is why it is good to do this. 16:13 I'm not sure how much of that actually got in my mouth. 16:18 I think you got more than half, but I could be wrong. 16:22 That one was very sticky. 16:28 Do you notice anything with that one, Brenda? 16:31 Nothing I am recognizing right away. 16:33 All right, let's do a second tyrosine. 16:43 So when somebody doesn't respond to the first capsule that we do, then we'll do a second one. 16:48 And I will do up to four capsules in each category of each amino acid if needed. 16:54 So that way, some people need 500 milligrams. 16:57 Some people will need 2,000 milligrams of a specific amino acids. 17:01 That's why the trialing process is so good because then, we're not guessing as to what your body is actually responding to. 17:09 We will know by the end. 17:10 And sometimes, you know, when you change your diet and you've been on the supplements for a little bit, we do need to tweak and change things for you so 17:17 we get you the optimal dose. 17:19 But overall, the starting dose is really good for like a week or so. 17:24 Some people stay on it for very long time and sometimes we add and subtract things as we go along with these amino acids. 17:32 All right, this one looks a bit more successful. 17:37 We don't have powder everywhere this time. 17:39 Very good. 17:43 So all of you listening, if you're interested in this, to schedule with me to do this amino acid trialing, there'll be a link in both of our show notes 17:53 for sure. 17:55 and you can just schedule a free appointment with me too and discuss these things. 17:59 I also train practitioners and it's a course called MindThrive where I teach practitioners how to use amino acids and all the nuances of it. 18:08 We have a great time. 18:10 Every week for Q&A, deeper teaching and there's an online portal. 18:17 that you can go through at your own pace, which is really, really nice. 18:21 And then you get six months of coaching with me every week for at least an hour, hour and a half with a whole group of people. 18:29 We just have a great time learning all about the brain, not just amino acids, but deeper brain health too. 18:36 So Brenda, what do you think of that one? 18:41 Well, I just got movement on my neck when this popped on me. 18:48 More neck movement, that's good. 18:53 Lots of good things happening with your neck tonight. 18:55 I don't know how to put this into words. 18:59 Like my, don' know articulate this. 19:04 My mind doesn't feel as dizzy. 19:10 Good. 19:11 That is the goal. 19:12 Yup. 19:12 It's the best way I can describe it. 19:15 The busy brain. 19:17 Yeah. 19:17 Less busy. 19:18 that's good. 19:19 Awesome. 19:22 All right. 19:22 You ready for the next category? 19:25 Yep. 19:26 awesome. 19:26 you're doing great. 19:27 This is fun. 19:28 Isn't it? 19:28 It is so fun! 19:31 Interesting. 19:32 Interesting for sure. 19:33 Okay. 19:34 this will be the endorphins. 19:35 Endorphin is like our inner joy. 19:38 It helps us with our emotional pain when we're going through grief. 19:42 Endorphins, like when I've lost people in my life, I will pull the endorphin supplementation back out. 19:51 And that is so helpful. 19:52 So scale of zero to 10, Brenda, emotionally sensitive or cry easy? 19:57 10. Kind of assumed that would be the one. 20:04 Sensitive to physical pain. 20:06 I'd say five. 20:08 Okay. 20:09 I feel like I can tolerate a lot, but my body doesn't allow me to. 20:12 Oh, okay. 20:15 Chronic pain history or fibromyalgia? 20:18 I'm going to say eight. 20:20 Eight. 20:22 And seeking comfort, reward or numbing from food, drugs, alcohol, porn, exercise or other activity? 20:30 Let's say two. 20:33 Alright, so I want you to find DPA.
Endorphins, DPA, and Emotional Relief 20:36 There's a D-L-P-A and a d-p-a. 20:38 I wanted you do dpa. 20:40 Dpa, got it. 20:41 Alright. 20:42 This one people tell me either tastes a little sweet and little cinnamony, apple pie-ish, or it tastes like plastic. 20:49 So, it really depends on your taste buds. 20:54 It's quite a difference. 20:55 Yeah, I won't tell you what I think it taste like, because I'll let you put it in your mouth and find out. 21:03 But it'll all be good. 21:06 This is one of my favorite ones. 21:08 When I first started doing amino acid therapy, I like lived on tryptophan. 21:14 And trypophane was not readily available back in 1996 because it had been taken off the market for a while. 21:22 because a bad batch came over from Japan and they knew it was contaminated, but they sent it over anyway. 21:31 After tryptophan was pulled from the market, Prozac happened to be re-released. 21:36 That was very convenient because nobody wanted ProZac because you could use trypophane and that would take care of your anxiety, 21:42 depression, and so many other things. 21:44 Once that was gone, they re released the medication. 21:48 And then tryptophan was really hard to get. 21:50 So I used to trypophane in the pet section of the health food stores. 21:57 Are you okay, Brenda? 22:00 It doesn't taste like apple pie, does it? 22:02 No. 22:03 Okay. 22:05 I personally think that DPA tastes like how chicken feed smells. 22:10 It tastes how, like when we fed our chickens growing up, that's how it Face to me is how that smelled. 22:18 Anyway, but I used to get tryptophan in the pet section because that's the only place I could get it. 22:23 But it worked and that was the thing that mattered. 22:25 So trypophane was my friend back then for sure. 22:28 Do you feel anything with that, Brenda? 22:30 And again, if you guys are hearing silence, it's okay. 22:33 We're just waiting. 22:35 I feel a little emotionally lighter. 22:38 Okay. 22:39 If that makes sense. 22:40 Can you define that more? 22:45 As I shared with you before, I got through a lot of significant losses this year. 22:48 Yeah. 22:51 And it's almost kind of like my heart doesn't feel as heavy. 22:58 Good. 23:01 That's good. 23:02 Again, it can still feel like this all through my shoulders. 23:08 Relaxing. 23:17 All right. 23:17 You're having great responses to the amino acids, like every single category. 23:23 This is wild. 23:24 It is a wild, yeah. 23:25 Yeah, I can't say it's placebo effect, can I? 23:29 Because you wouldn't really want that in your mouth. 23:37 Okay, last section, Brenda. 23:40 Scale of zero to 10. This is for glucose regulation, so low blood sugar symptoms. 23:45 You are hangry feeling or irritable when you're hungry? 23:49 I'm going to say two. 23:50 Okay. 23:51 How about shaky if you go too long between meals? 23:55 That's probably five. 23:59 And do you have sugar or carb cravings? 24:03 Probably six. 24:05 All right. 24:06 So we're going to use glutamine. 24:09 L-glutamine? 24:09 Yep. 24:10 Is that the same thing? 24:11 Yeah. 24:13 And glutamate is amazing for so many things. 24:16 It can be amazing your brain. 24:19 Also helps to heal the gut. 24:21 and it is great for glucose regulation. 24:23 so it's very multifaceted little amino acid. 24:29 She's getting it folks. 24:32 She almost has it. 24:38 And this one doesn't really taste like much of anything. 24:42 Kind of chalky, kind of bland. 24:48 Which will be a relief from the last one. 24:49 You should see the mess I have here. 24:53 I believe you. 24:54 Sometimes my desk looks that way. 25:00 To be in the functional nutritional world, sometimes you have a messy desk with your supplements. 25:08 All right, this last one's under her tongue, folks. 25:15 So I was saying I have course that helps train practitioners in this. 25:22 In the course, everybody has to do their own amino acid journey, which is so fun. 25:28 And then we have such a big group on my Monday night calls that we all like to trial, do this together with each other because we learn a lot and can give 25:37 really good feedback. 25:38 Everybody has such different response. 25:41 So that's the fun part of this as well. 25:43 There's really no negative effects of amino acids in the body. 25:47 So if somebody doesn't like the amino acid, then maybe they'll get a headache or they feel a little woozy. 25:55 Some people just like, ooh, I don't even know how to define it. 25:58 I just don' like that particular amino. 26:00 You know, so you just kind of know. 26:03 It helps you to be more aware of what's going on in your body and in You have to watch some medications. 26:10 So any of you on mood medications, we want to take specific amino acids, you know, definitely away from some of those medications so that's why it's really 26:17 good to work with somebody who understands all the nuances that go along with amino acid therapy. 26:23 Do you notice anything with the glutamine, Brenda? 26:27 Nothing is really... 26:28 I'm not recognizing anything right away. 26:32 Well, let's do a second one. 26:37 So those of you listening or watching, if you noticed, when she was doing the serotonin, she responded to one tryptophan,
Glutamine, Lithium, and Trialing Results 26:45 which is great, right? 26:47 And then we went to GABA and one was perfect. 26:50 And, then, we want to tyrosine and she needed two of those, and then glutamine, let's see, nope, the endorphogen, DPA, needed one of them. 27:01 So, again, dosing varies which why we do the trialing session. 27:06 So that you know that, you responded to all this and at what dose we need to start with for each and every one of you. 27:14 So it's kind of just a fun process. 27:17 Do you have it in there? 27:18 Oh, no. 27:18 Here it goes. 27:19 Down the hatch again. 27:22 So I have all sorts of people in my MindThrive course. 27:25 So, I've got practitioners, people like Brenda that does a lot of breath work. 27:29 I got nutritionists, have got chiropractors, some counselors, psychiatrists. 27:35 Even some moms that want to get certified so that they can help their family and friends and make a business out of it. 27:43 Amino acid therapy is very versatile. 27:45 Anybody can learn how to use it and I'm there to walk you through every step of the way. 27:54 So one of my recent clients, we were doing this and she's been on it for a while. 28:01 Like the, like this tightness that was in her chest, you know, that anxiety like kind of just would sit there in our chest. 28:08 You know a couple of days later she messaged me, she was like, it's just gone. 28:12 It's totally gone! 28:14 That's incredible. 28:15 I know. 28:16 And another lady the other day, and had some bottles of supplements sitting on her counter. 28:20 She's like oh my gosh, I can read the bottles. 28:25 Like even their eyesight improved. 28:26 Like because the brain just calmed down enough where your brain could like decode what was on the bottles. 28:33 So yeah, it's fun to watch what the amino acids do. 28:38 The one thing I noticed right now is that my stomach was gurgling before. 28:41 It's not giggling right know. 28:48 Do you notice anything at all with the second one? 28:51 A whole bunch. 28:53 Okay, let's do a third one. 28:55 So we'll go up to four. 28:57 If we hit four, we're probably not going to respond any more than that. 29:02 So this can be a very tedious process if people need like four of each one. 29:08 And I said nine, nine different supplements in the kits that I send out, and so sometimes we have to go through all nine of them to find the ones that really, 29:18 really work. 29:18 But Brenda's responding really well, so we won't need to through through them, which is good. 29:25 I had a little boy in my office one time and he was doing the trialing and, he really liked tyrosine. 29:31 And normally I don't give tyrasine at night, it's free catecholamines. 29:35 It's not stimulating, but it helps you be more alert, you have better mental energy, all that kind of stuff. 29:42 But he would so wound up all the time, that when he took the tyroxine he went right to sleep. 29:48 His little brain just relaxed so much, like all of the noise was just gone. 29:54 He went to sleep, and he's been sleeping good since then. 29:56 Oh, wow. 29:58 I know. 29:58 It can just have a profound effect in just the most fun ways. 30:03 All right. 30:05 Do you notice anything with the third one, Brenda? 30:08 Not really noticing much of a difference on this one. 30:11 That's OK. 30:11 Let's do the fourth one and see what happens. 30:14 So this might be one that Brenda just doesn't respond to. 30:18 And that happens, And That OK, you don't have to respond all of them in order for this to work. 30:24 So, if I'm not responding to it, what does that mean? 30:28 Well, you could say maybe your body doesn't need it. 30:31 But there's lots of people that I know I like, I knew you totally need the supplement, but for whatever reason, your bodies just like that's not what I 30:39 want right now. 30:39 And it just doesn' respond to. 30:41 A lot of times it can be medication induced, But you're not on any meds. 30:47 So or you might need a higher dose than what, the four capsules call for. 30:52 It could be a lot those things too. 30:55 I don't worry about it. 30:56 People are like, oh no, I'm not responding. 30:58 It's okay. 30:59 There's other tools in the toolbox. 31:01 If for some reason somebody doesn't respond to amino acids and about 10% of the people don' Then we have other tools in the toolbox. 31:08 And then lots of times, once we work on other things, like maybe your cortisol is just too high for your body to respond to much. 31:15 So once get the cortisol level down, then you start responding to the amino acids. 31:20 It's not that your didn't need them, it's just that you couldn't tell because everything was just to jazzy. 31:27 for you to even notice anything, right? 31:30 So there's a time and a place, and sometimes we just need to work on other things first, but most of the time people respond to it. 31:38 It's really great for food cravings, the amino acids in general. 31:42 I had a client and she came to me and had chocolate in her shower every single morning, because that's how she started her day. 31:49 She's calming, just helps her focus to face the day, and so we teased her, it was her showered chocolate. 31:57 And she's like, don't take my shower chocolate away. 32:00 Then after she was on the amino acids for a little bit, she said, you know what? 32:03 I haven't even thought about my showering chocolate! 32:07 That's awesome. 32:09 I know. 32:09 Oh my gosh. 32:10 We all have our quirkies. 32:11 So those of you out there listening, I knew you have quirky too. 32:14 You might be the shower chocolate lady as well. 32:16 All right. 32:21 Do you notice anything with that one, Brenda? 32:26 I am not. 32:27 Okay. 32:27 That is perfect. 32:28 we will move on. 32:30 Now let's go to, it should say either lithium orotate or monolith on the sample. 32:39 Monolith. 32:40 Monolithic. 32:41 Is it a little grenade tablet? 32:42 Yes. 32:43 Okay, so that one you're just going to chew a bit and hold it in your mouth and it'll start to dissolve. 32:50 So lithium orotate is very protective to the brain. 32:53 And it's very different than lithium carbonate, which is the medication. 32:59 So this is not a medication, this just like taking magnesium or zinc or any other mineral. 33:04 Our water system used to be very high in lithium, and it is now anymore. 33:09 We've just kind of depleted it out of our soils and out our water. 33:13 It is a bitter salty taste, yes. 33:17 Thankfully, when you take these supplements, you can actually swallow the capsules. 33:20 You don't have to put them under your tongue, but that's just for trialing purposes. 33:27 I did have a client one time, bless her heart. 33:32 I don't know how it didn't get relayed to her well, but clearly I didn' relay it to a well. 33:36 And she sent me a message. 33:37 She goes, I am loving the amino acids, But my mouth hurts so bad. 33:42 I'm like, why does your mouth hurt? 33:45 You know, i was trying to figure it out. 33:46 she goes. 33:47 Well, just putting all these supplements under my tongue all the time. 33:51 and she'd been doing it for like a week. 33:53 So bless her heart. 33:54 Oh my goodness. 33:55 i clearly did not make that. 33:58 that you did not have to put those underneath your tongue. 34:01 So that's just for the trialing process. 34:03 Or if there's an emergency, which is the fun part too with amino acids, you can, if you're having a panic attack or you feeling overly emotional, 34:10 You can just open them up and put them under your time and you going to get that immediate reaction. 34:14 Whereas it takes, 15 to 20 minutes when you swallow them in the capsule form. 34:18 That was awful. 34:22 I know. 34:23 Sorry. 34:25 All right. 34:26 Do you notice anything with the Lithium Orotate? 34:30 I'm not noticing anything right off hand. 34:33 Like down the other stuff. 34:35 Yeah. 34:35 Let's do a second one. 34:38 I know. 34:39 So Lithiomorotates, like I said, is very protective to the brain as a whole. 34:44 It's really good for trauma, PTSD. 34:49 those types of things as well. 34:52 Alzheimer's, dementia, it's really, really good for reducing inflammation, kind of healing that brain in general, because it is a mineral. 35:01 Yeah. 35:02 And they've done studies, I'm trying to think of the name of studies on the lithium orotate. 35:07 I can't think about the moment, but they tested water systems and the water system in the United States that had the most lithium in it had least amount 35:16 of crime rates and suicides. 35:20 Oh, wow. 35:21 Yeah. 35:21 So it's very good for mental health. 35:25 And it'll actually a lot more psychiatrists are using it now too, instead of the lithium carbonate, or they're putting the people on the carbon eight first 35:33 and then weaning them off and getting them on to lithium or a Tate. 35:36 They get them stable with the medication and work down to the actual nutrient, which is really good to hear.
Dosing Plan, Q&A, and Closing Remarks 35:49 You noticing something with that one? 35:53 No. 35:56 Anything negative or just nothing at all? 35:59 Not really negative. 36:00 I feel like my, for all my headaches coming back. 36:04 Okay. 36:06 That's a negative with lithium because that can happen. 36:10 You know, the headache will come back, so you could take another tryptophan and make that go away. 36:17 So we won't do any more of the lithium orotate. 36:20 Yeah, because it's like my headaches are coming back and then the calmness I was like feeling in my brain went away as well. 36:30 Okay. 36:31 So yeah, so that won' t last very long. 36:33 If you have some vitamin C, you can take some Vitamin C and that'll wash that negativity out for sure. 36:39 But yeah, so that's the trialing process. 36:41 So if you hadn't responded to what you responded, we would have tried the other supplements in the box because clearly we haven't tried everything. 36:50 But we don't really need to because you've responded really, really well. 36:53 We'll start with 500 milligrams of tryptophan, 500 mg of GABA. 37:02 Okay. 37:03 And then we, and I'll send this in an email to you. 37:06 Then we'll do tyrosine three times a day at a thousand milligrams. 37:09 We'll then do a little bit of DPA, 500 milligrams four times at day two. 37:16 I want to check in with you in just a few days, send me a message, tell me how you're feeling on them once you get them. 37:22 and then, we will meet every seven to 10 days and make sure you are doing really well on And that's kind of how the process goes. 37:30 Very cool. 37:31 Yeah. 37:31 So what do you think, Brenda? 37:33 Very interesting and how, because I wasn't sure. 37:36 I mean, I know I had asked you on how I'd be able to tell the difference if they made the impact or not, taking one right after the other. 37:45 That surprised me on Yeah, distinguish the difference from one to the other even though there was just like a slight gap in between. 37:53 Because they're really targeted for different neurotransmitters. 37:59 They're different nutrients to your body, so your bodies going to have a different response to them. 38:03 It's kind of like giving zinc is going respond different than magnesium in your right? 38:08 So GABA is gonna respond differently than tryptophan because they are just for difference things. 38:13 Yeah. 38:14 Okay. 38:15 So like when people take these, I mean, is there a better time to take them like morning compared to night? 38:21 Well, we'll take it multiple times a day to start with. 38:24 Because as we're fixing the deficiency, your amino acids last like three to four hours, some people four to five hours. 38:32 And then your body needs more. 38:34 It's kind of like having an amino acid snack all day long. 38:37 Yeah, so we will do that for a little while and then you won't need them as consistently. 38:42 over time. 38:43 So the goal is that you don't, you only use them as tools when you feel like you have a deficiency because they'll just give you a nice boost. 38:53 Okay. 38:53 Makes sense. 38:54 Awesome. 38:55 Any other questions for me? 38:58 So just out of curiosity, so the other ones that that we're not doing. 39:04 What do they do? 39:05 What did they help with? 39:06 Okay, so the 5-HTP is also for serotonin. 39:11 So if you hadn't responded to the tryptophan, I would have done 5HDP with you. 39:15 5 HTP only converts into seratonin, where trypophane converts in to lots of other things. 39:21 It's more nutritive to brain, So I like to see if people respond to that one first. 39:25 Okay. 39:25 And then I have L-theanine in there, which is for the GABA pathway. 39:29 You responded the GABBA. 39:31 Theaninine would be the second option. 39:33 Not that it's better than GABA. 39:35 I just started with GABO with you. 39:37 You could certainly start with theanine if you wanted to, for those of you listening. 39:41 And then we had DPA, right? 39:45 So we have DLPA which is D-L-phenylalanine, which actually works on your endorphins and your catecholamines. 39:53 So that would be an option that we could try with. 39:58 What am I missing? 39:59 What else didn't we do? 39:59 No, it was just those three. 40:00 Just those 3, yeah. 40:01 So that's what those were for. 40:03 And you certainly can try those on your own if you want and see how you respond. 40:06 If you like any of those better, let me know. 40:08 I was just curious. 40:11 But yeah, this is very neat. 40:12 I'm so glad that I did this. 40:13 Yeah, I am glad too. 40:14 That was really glad you asked. 40:15 So this was always fun. 40:18 Hopefully the audience has really enjoyed watching the trialing process because I know a lot of you have followed me for a long time. 40:24 You're like, what is this amino acid therapy and how crazy is it? 40:28 Does it really work? 40:29 Is it placebo? 40:30 I don't know. 40:32 But I will tell you, it's definitely not placebo. 40:34 It works really well. 40:35 And if you're interested, check the show notes, send me a message, follow me on Instagram, Take Back My Brain. 40:42 That's my podcast. 40:43 So Instagram Facebook, all those things. 40:46 Brenda, where can they find you? 40:48 You can follow me on my podcast at Heartache Health and Healing, but my website is, I'm on Instagram, Facebook under my name, 40:57 Brenda Munt, and my web site is www.energizedlifewellness.com. 41:03 And she is a breathing coach. 41:05 Yes. 41:06 The amino acids will make the breathing easier for you and for all of your clients. 41:12 It just helps things. 41:14 I think amino acid makes every other therapy work better. 41:19 So thank you so much, Brenda, for being on today. 41:21 Thank you everyone for listening. 41:23 God bless you, and I will see you in the next episode. 41:27 Thanks for listening to Take Back My Brain. 41:30 If today's episode helped you connect with hope or direction, I want you to follow the show, leave us a review and share it with someone who needs it. 41:39 And if you're ready to start your own healing journey, explore our courses and our coaching programs at lorihammer.com backslash store. 41:49 So until next time, remember you cannot medicate away a nutrient deficiency and healing your brain isn't just possible, it's powerful.
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