Comment by Trasmatta

Comment by Trasmatta 3 hours ago

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But also be careful about taking too much choline. There's lots of anecdotal reports of people taking too much choline supplements and becoming massively depressed.

zamalek 3 hours ago

Interestingly many antidepressants are anticholinergic (as are many nootropes, so you have to be super careful mixing to the two).

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clumsysmurf 3 hours ago

The other problem with supplementing with too much choline may be elevated TMAO:

"Dietary Choline Supplements, but Not Eggs, Raise Fasting TMAO Levels in Participants with Normal Renal Function: A Randomized Clinical Trial"

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8410632/

  • JKCalhoun 2 hours ago

    My takeaway: do please go ahead and add egg to your diet.

    • tucnak 2 hours ago

      Big Egg paid you to say this, didn't they?

      • DANmode 4 minutes ago

        I do prefer a Big Egg.

        Brown ones, too.

        I haven’t looked, but I bet that tracks with nutritional value.

  • brigandish 2 hours ago

    It helps to mention what TMAO is:

    > Choline is a dietary precursor to the gut microbial generation of the pro-thrombotic and pro-atherogenic metabolite trimethylamine-N-oxide (TMAO).