Anyone else have a massive improvement from Tyrosine?

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Some adults develop elevated tyrosine in their blood. This indicates a need for more vitamin C. More tyrosine is needed under stress, and tyrosine supplements prevent the stress-induced depletion of norepinephrine and can cure biochemical depression.


  • Tyrosinemia may coexist with tyrosinuria and the most common cause is either vitamin B6 deficiency or pyridoxal 5-phosphate dysfunction, or weakness of the tyrosine transaminase enzyme and increased need for vitamin B6 or pyridoxal 5-phosphate.
These diagrams show where P5P (B6), C, SAMe and BH4 (Kuvan) are used in catecholamine production:


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Tyrosine is also needed in the production of thyroid hormones, which can impact energy. It might be wise to have FT3, FT4 and TSH checked after supplementing tyrosine, especially if you start to feel hyperthyroid symptoms.
 

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These diagrams show where P5P (B6), C, SAMe and BH4 (Kuvan) are used in catecholamine production:


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Tyrosine is also needed in the production of thyroid hormones, which can impact energy. It might be wise to have FT3, FT4 and TSH checked after supplementing tyrosine, especially if you start to feel hyperthyroid symptoms.
You are a virtual library! I will make sure to take B6 and C two or three times a day. The thing about the thyroid is that my temperature has been anywhere from 96.? to 97.6 for years. Taking selenium and seaweed for iodine or even potassium iodide hasn't helped. This is the first thing that has helped very quickly. Sometimes diet seemed to have helped, but took forever, and had repercussions. Hopefully I can use my temperature to judge.

I have also seen it can raise blood pressure, which is something that is helpful for me, too. Of course, I wouldn't want that to go too high, either. I wonder how often it's the case that someone that needs and benefits from tyrosine actually experiences symptoms of excess.

Whenever I see vitamin c in the picture I find it interesting because I experienced extreme enough deficiency as a child as to have obvious symptoms of easy bruising and poor condition of gums. A dentist recommended supplementing, and my mother got some for me, but she didn't stick with it, having 6 kids and the work that involved.
 

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The thing about the thyroid is that my temperature has been anywhere from 96.? to 97.6 for years. Taking selenium and seaweed for iodine or even potassium iodide hasn't helped. This is the first thing that has helped very quickly. Sometimes diet seemed to have helped, but took forever, and had repercussions. Hopefully I can use my temperature to judge.
I've found that having thyroid hormones at good levels puts my temperature at 97.6-98.0, when I'm hypothyroid, it's 96-97.
I have also seen it can raise blood pressure, which is something that is helpful for me, too. Of course, I wouldn't want that to go too high, either. I wonder how often it's the case that someone that needs and benefits from tyrosine actually experiences symptoms of excess.
I tend toward hyper (high BP) POTS and having enough tyrosine doesn't make it too high
Whenever I see vitamin c in the picture I find it interesting because I experienced extreme enough deficiency as a child as to have obvious symptoms of easy bruising and poor condition of gums. A dentist recommended supplementing, and my mother got some for me, but she didn't stick with it, having 6 kids and the work that involved.
Collagen production also needs vitamin C, And the immune system. Not having enough vitamin C can lead to some of the spinal / neck and nerve pinching issues that many people experience, in my opinion.
The Pall Vitamin C pdf that you linked says that postherpetic neuralgia is one of the diseases associated with the NO/ONOO- cycle!
Yup! They damage mitochondria...