At 09:55 PM 7/11/97 -0400, you wrote:
>There have been several recent letters regarding St. John's Wort and
>GH3, In the June issue of Energy Times, a health magazine, a letter
>to the editor about St. John's Wort asks, among other things, if SJW
>is a MAO inhibitor. The editor replies that it is, but then says
>"the problem with combining SJW...is that a weaker MAO inhibitor may
>block a stronger one from reaching the monoamine oxidase enzyme, thus
>reducing the effectiveness of the stronger inhibitor." It would seem
>that any PWP taking deprenyl should not even think of adding St.
>John's Wort or GH3 (also a MAO inhibitor) to their regimen.
>Ann Gibbons
>
More to the point - if you are taking Deprenyl why bother with SJW which is
only weaker?
Ron (49/2)
