Thanks much, Amadeus. I'm curious about the carbs at night, because from
reading the Syndrome X book and related material, it seem to me that
clearing insulin from the blood at night promotes growth hormone and deep
sleep, hence the recommendation to eat a high protein dinner early and not
eat again until breakfast.

But maybe to maximize serotonin, for those who need extra help with that,
the potato at night might be a reasonable compromise, especially if it works
for them. Rather than speculate any more, I will follow up and check out the
web sites you recommended, and I've ordered the Potato not Prozac book,
since it sounded interesting enough to look into.

-Karen




----- Original Message -----
From: "Amadeus Schmidt" <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Thursday, June 21, 2001 5:54 AM
Subject: Re: paleo/depression/bipolar


> On Wed, 20 Jun 2001 16:46:23 -0400, Karen Robinson <[log in to unmask]>
> wrote:
>
> >You said,
> > >>It talks about how to get serotonin into the brain by eating protein
but
> >then also having some complex carb later to push it into the brain.<<
> >
> >Never heard of this. Any idea how this works biochemically, or should I
> >just
> >get the book :)
>
> We had a discussion on the topic here some time ago.
> You I've placed a link to the paleofood archives on this at
>  httm://www.geocities.com/paleolix
> then look for "tryptophan" under "various resources"
> (the url is too long to include it here).
>
> They key is how to get the tryptophan (serotonin predecossor) into the
brain
> - this depends on the free amino acid composition in the blood.
>
> You may be interested to read:
> httm://www.earthpulse.com/flanagan/pharmacy.html
> On brain chemistry.
>
> Amadeus
>