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Jeff wrote: doctors who are advocating St. John's Wort as an >alternative to Prozac? They are saying that the natural, little flower >provides folks with relief from depression without the side affects that >accompany Prozac. I also entertained using St. John's Wort and asked a personal friend who is a pharmacist if she had info since there are no pharmaceutical-type printouts about contra-indications....it took her a while, but she eventually found data that cautioned against mixing with MAO inhibitors (Eldepryl). So I passed. I still use L-tyrosine a few times a week (500 mg), no depression lasting more than an hour or two since beginning this approach more than a year ago. My theory is that since the Parkinsonian brain is documented to be low in L-tyrosine, and that condition can result in depression in anyone, PWP or not, I believe (maybe the only person on the planet who believes this) that the depression related to PD is caused by the shortage of L-tyrosine, not by the PD. Kathie Tollifson [log in to unmask]