METHIONINE

Antidepressant amino, precursor to SAMe

Indications for use:

• Depression.
• May be helpful for alcoholism.
• May be useful with allergies & asthma.
• Helps lower copper with copper toxicity.
• May be beneficial against the toxic effects of radiation.
• Improves healing from surgery & other wounds.
• May be useful for the high histamine type of schizophrenia - is most useful in those schizophrenics who are depressed.
• Liver disorders.
• May reduce withdrawal symptoms & depression from heroin, barbiturate, or amphetamine reduction.
• May be used as an adjunct to L-dopa treatment for Parkinson's disease.
• Antioxidant therapy.

An essential amino, methionine functions as a sulfur donor to aid in your body's detoxification processes & can convert to other sulfur amino acids; can convert to glutathione, & is a precursor to S-adenosyl methionine. Methionine is one of the essential sulfur amino acids. You must ingest it for survival. As what is called a "methyl donor", methionine contributes to the formation of numerous important compounds in your body. This process is called "methylation" & deficient "methylation" is implicated in depression.