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From: macleod@drivax.UUCP (MacLeod)
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Subject: Try choline and B6 for increased acetylcholine production
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Date: 16 Jan 88 03:06:13 GMT
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In article <506@dl901b.engin.umich.edu> schonek@caen.engin.umich.edu (Anthony J Schonek) writes:

: I am curious about "Acetylcholine."  Supposedly
:it is a chemical in the brain that stimulates memory
:response.  (I'm not a biologis/doctor so please excuse
:the ignorance)  Anyway, does this actually stimulate
:memory response; and in what forms could this chemical
:be purchased in order to perform the desired effects.
:I heard fish and liver contain this chemical, but is
:there a drug that would be more efficient?

For starters, you can try saturating your own acetylcholine-creating
metabolism by taking supplementary choline and vitamin B6, both used
in its production.  I find that taking 3 grams of choline (not lecithin,
which is only part choline) improves my writing ability fractionally and 
seems to keep me more alert, both effects attributable to acetylcholine.

Take phosphedtyl (spelling?) choline, not choline chloride, as the latter
can sometimes upset your GI tract.  Also take 100 mg or B6 for each gm 
of choline.  Balanced B complex seems to work better than straight B6.

I endorse Vitamin Research Products for all such supplements, and I even
make and encapsulate my own.  They have a nationwide 800 number and
a California 800 number, and are located in Mountain View, CA.  I 
also hear that they are in the process of coming out with a wide array of
formulations based on and approved by Durk Pearson and Sandy Shaw.

This advice is soley for supplementing your diet and not for any
tratment of disease. (FDA disclaimer)