Author: EaubeauHorn
Date: 2018-03-30 01:41
Not everyone will respond to increasing serotonin; some of us are dopamine deficient, and I am one of those. If you have done 23andme, you will be able to find out if you have SNPs in the CBS pathway that interfere with dopamine production. I do, severely, and found that supplementing with L tyrosine fixed my stage fright, making it "normal" instead of "disabling." But, I had found that before I ever did 23andme, and the 23andme simply explained why what I used worked. I take a large dose daily, and will give the caveat that if you are NOT dopamine deficient, even a small dose of L tyrosine can make you over-dopamine-ated, which is not a pleasant state. I had almost quit performing, even in low level groups, before I found this, because I would have trouble not fainting on stage just anticipating a solo, not even playing one. When I was a professional section violinist, I also had such incredible stage fright that it was a factor in changing careers. After, it was a whole different ballgame and no big deal to play in public. While there are psychological and preparation reasons for stage fright, there are also chemical ones, which are sometimes easily fixed. But you have to want to approach it from a functional medicine point of view (finding and fixing the cause) rather than just doping yourself.
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