Posted by taylor18 on November 9, 2003, at 0:45:08
http://www.the7thfire.com/bipolar.htm
Mary has a husband with a bi-polar/manic depression condition. He had been unable to work for three years. Not only was he moody, grouchy, and always yelling at everyone, but he did not have enough energy to do small chores around the house.
Mary talked to me and asked for help. She said that if things did not change for the better, she was going to get a divorce and take the children and resettle somewhere else.
I told her about Pycnogenol® and how it had helped other people with similar symptoms. She decided to put her husband on the product since she had nothing to lose. Two months later, I met with her and she told me what had happened to her husband. He had been taking the product for five weeks when she was in the kitchen and heard the children laughing while her husband chased them up the stairs. She ran into the hall and asked her husband if he realized he was running up the stairs. He was stunned. He said he was just doing what seemed natural. Three weeks after that, he was feeling normal and started working in his construction company again. She said her family life was normal again and she no longer considered divorce an option.
Dr. Lamar Rosquist, DC
This testimonial is not very detailed. I think OPCs/Flavay might actually be harmful to MD's. I've read that it actually increases norephinephrine and dopamine by inhibiting their breakdown through interactions with nitric oxide synthase. However, I've also read that they modulate nitric oxide. Anecdotal reports yield results worthy of further investigation for it's use in manic depression: mental clarity, focus, calming properties, concentration etc.
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