Mucuna Product Description

• Nature’s boost for healthy mental and sexual function
• Effective for both men and women
• Standardized Extract strength 15% L-DOPA
• Improves Mood and Wellness during the dieting process
• Depression
• Anxiety
• Supports production of L-dopamine to help replace or restore the natural supply which is depleted by some drugs or medications. Certain medications as well as street drugs use dopamine as “fuel” so to speak, Mucuna helps to replace the depleted dopamine to promote improved mood and “happiness” when used over a period of time  (drugs for example such as cocaine, meth, Ritalin, Adderall, *Heroine, etc.).

Which substance is the worst offender in regards to the abuse of dopamine? 

Drug Fact;  You may often wonder why America has such a drug problem and why recovery from them is so difficult. You need not look further than the true addiction and desire for dopamine, known as the happy hormone and neurotransmitter.  Heroin is quickly converted to morphine which then binds to the brains receptor for reward and happiness, the source of their addiction. Heroin makes you feel more “happy” than you naturally can produce. As an opiate, Heroin causes the brain’s dopamine level involved in this reward system to increase by as much as 200%, the highest recorded.

Mucuna supports your body to also produce more L-Dopa which is a natural anti-depressant. If you take Mucuna with Green Tea, you also include a natural source of L-Theanine which helps to combat depression. L-Theanine off-sets the caffeine in Green Tea, so many who cannot drink coffee or even Black Tea, CAN drink Green Tea.

What is the Difference Between “Happiness” from Serotonin or Dopamine?

Serotonin;  helps you feel happier, more calm and focused. Serotonin plays a much higher role in digestion as compared to dopamine

Dopamine will make you feel productive, motivated, busy, accomplished, Dopamine plays a much higher role in the brains production

Too much Dopamine increases more impulsive behavior and on the other hand, serotonin inhibits impulsive behavior.

Dopamine and Serotonin both play a vital role in regulating appetite; suppressing and increasing depending upon your body’s needs. When a person cannot eat because they have no appetite, it may be caused by a regulatory problem with the balance between Dopamine and Serotonin and closely associated with so many digestive orders like IBS, Crohn’s, Ulcerative Colitis, Post Antibiotic use, and all kinds of IBDs.

Foods & Supplements Help Your Brain Produce L-Dopamine

• Dairy;  cheese, yogurt, milk
• Animal Protein;  pastured, grass fed-finished beef and poultry
• Oily fish which are rich in Omega-3-Fatty Acids;  halibut, salmon, mackerel, sardines
• Whole egg (must include both white and yolk) pastured organic cage free (cage free alone is not enough, chickens need to be raised as “pastured” and not just cage free in a quonset hut)
• Raw Nuts;  almonds, walnuts, cashews (20 cashews per day research has found to be the equivalent of taking Prozac!)
• Certain fruits, specifically bananas, avocado, apples
• Beets (also helpful to produce Nitric Oxide, directly related to energy and stable blood pressure)
• Dark cocoa, cacao nibs
• Butter (butyrate content naturally occurring in butter increases dopamine)
• Folate
  • Dark green leafy vegetables (turnip greens, spinach, romaine lettuce, asparagus, Brussels sprouts, broccoli)
  • Beans.
  • Peanuts.
  • Sunflower seeds.
  • Fresh fruits, fruit juices.
  • Whole grains.
  • Liver
• Seafood

Supplementing Mucuna

Take with or without food. Start with 1 capsule AM and PM on an empty stomach or taken early in the day with the first meal for all-day-relief. Every 3-5 days, if needed, you can increase the dosage by one capsule until reaching no more than 6 capsules. If at 6 capsules, results are not experienced, reduce to 2 capsules daily and add in a complementary supplement. Most individuals find that 2 capsules daily is adequate and add other complementary supplements for variable benefits based on their personal needs. The supplements and herbs mentioned above are complementary. If adding to base supplement plan, try to add in one additional one at a time so that you can better judge what is working. We generally find that adding to the regiment works better as compared to quitting one thing and trying something else. Most of these types of products are more effective used in unison in a combination. This takes time to determine. Generally people start with 2 or 3 products for about 2 weeks to test results before adding something new. The goal is to find the ideal combination of products to get winning results.