Gamma-aminobutyric acid (abbreviated GABA) is a nutrient found in the brain that has neurotransmitter and metabolic functions. Its beneficial properties are invaluable for the human body, and especially for those who engage in sports and heavy training. This inhibitory neurotransmitter of the central nervous system stimulates the energy processes of the brain, improves the quality of the respiratory function of tissues, stimulates blood circulation, and improves the process of glucose utilization.
Gaba also performs other important functions. This amino acid relieves nervous tension, has a good tonic and calming effect, and often acts as a tranquilizer, but without addiction. For medical, rather than sporting, purposes, the biogenic substance is used in the treatment of sexual dysfunction, since it has a strong relaxing effect.
Pharmaceuticals containing GABA
Among pharmaceutical products, the most popular drug is Amylon, the effect of which is to stimulate the metabolic processes of the brain. This medicine has a high concentration of GABA and is quickly absorbed in the body, and then forms strong bonds with plasma, entering the blood.
The pharmaceutical drug breaks down in the liver and kidneys. It is excreted from the body along with urine. The product is non-toxic and is not the only one containing a biogenic substance. Among other drugs, Picamilon, Gamibetal, and Gammalon are in demand. They contain a slightly lower concentration of GABA, but are considered very effective.
AMINALON: reviews
I used to take piracetam, but it gave me some kind of nervous excitement and problems with sleep. After reading a lot of literature, I finally found a nootropic without side effects, with a calming effect - aminalon. I started drinking it two tablets a day. On the first day I noticed a slight allergy, my skin began to itch, well, that’s just a side effect. And most importantly, from the first pill my mood improved, my head somehow became clearer, my memory became better and my thinking improved. In general, the first day on Aminalon was just great. I even took a guitar, went to the embankment and began to sing songs, which I haven’t done for a long time. In three hours I made 600 rubles. Then I ate a delicious meal with this money at a coffee shop. Arriving home in the evening, I easily fell asleep, although I had problems sleeping before. The next day also went well, only after taking aminalon in the evening, I felt ...read more
shaft, a more severe allergy, and some kind of short-term burning of the scalp, I read the instructions, it seemed like everything was from the set of side effects standard for this drug, I didn’t pay much attention to it and went to bed. The next morning I woke up with a more severe allergy, my eyes became red and watery, hives appeared on my arm, and snot started flowing from my nose. I took an antihistamine and the allergy went away. That day I decided not to take aminalon, but to continue taking it the next day at a lower dose or with an antihistamine. The next day I took the Aminalon tablet, and almost immediately I felt something wrong, as if the right side of my body was weakening, and some strange sensations appeared in the left half of my head. At first I didn’t pay attention to it, because... the main effect of the drug was the same, I thought that these were just some side effects that would soon go away. A little later, I started feeling dizzy, I went to bed, I think I’ll lie down for a while and everything will pass, after all, the jocks eat GABA (the active ingredient of aminalone) in tablespoons and they should at least give a damn. But it was not to be, a severe headache began, the back of the head tightened, everything around me was spinning and blurry. In this state, I lay on the bed for about half an hour, but when my head just started to split, and I began to stop feeling my right hand, and my tongue began to fall somewhere to the right in my mouth, I realized that everything was here. will not go away, and that in general this is all very similar to a stroke, and some measures need to be taken to relieve this condition. There was a very appropriate chair near the bed, leaning on it, I finally got to the kitchen, threw in 20 tablets of activated carbon, washed it down with water, the result didn’t take long to arrive, I started to feel better, at first everything stopped spinning and blurring, then I started again I began to feel my right hand. Taking with me noshpa, Evalar hawthorn KA, paracetamol, water and a blood pressure monitor, I returned to the bedroom and lay down on the bed. I measured my blood pressure - 120/80. I think the blood pressure is normal, I’m young, healthy, I don’t drink or smoke, I go in for sports, the blood vessels are clean and strong, which means it’s definitely not a hemorrhagic stroke, and somehow it doesn’t look like a stroke, since the neurological symptoms began to regress so quickly. And then I remembered that I had recently read on the Internet about transient ischemic attacks, and I realized that this was exactly it. I boldly drank noshpa, and felt better almost immediately. Then I added a hawthorn cardio active tablet, the headache almost stopped, and normal sensitivity on the right side of the body returned. A little later, my mother came home, came into my bedroom, saw a blood pressure monitor, pills, and me lying in a state of slight fright. He asks what happened (I didn’t think to say right away that my blood pressure just jumped), and he told her everything as it happened. She called an ambulance without listening to me, and for some reason told them that I had had a stroke, although I was already walking around the apartment normally, and everything was fine with my right hand too. My tongue no longer tilted to the right and I spoke perfectly, only my head hurt a little, apparently there was still a slight spasm of blood vessels. In general, my mother was more scared than me, I gave her hawthorn and tryptophan, she calmed down almost immediately. The ambulance, surprisingly, arrived quickly, in about 20 minutes. I told them what happened to me, the doctor checked my reflexes, stability in the Romberg position, sensitivity on the left and right sides of the body, checked muscle strength, and asked me to stick out my tongue. He talked a little more with me and diagnosed me with “Transient cerebrovascular accident”, and he also partly agreed that it could just be a paradoxical reaction to Aminalon and nothing more, but still suggested that I be examined in the hospital for three days . In order not to worry my mother, I agreed to go by ambulance to the hospital, in addition to a change of clothes and slippers, I took noshpa, hawthorn, paracetamol and an antihistamine with me to the hospital (as it turned out later, it was not in vain). On the very first day they did an ECG, EEG, REG, asked about my complaints at the moment, I said that nothing was bothering me, only my head ached slightly on the left side, they gave me an acetylsalicylic acid tablet, said that I would take it later, and then hid it in a box from under hawthorn) because I have a severe allergy to aspirin. It was late in the evening, we were fed dinner, the medical staff handed out the pills, and everyone slowly began to go to bed. I didn’t take the pills again, but hid them in a hawthorn box, because this time they brought aspirin again and for some reason the whole milligram of phenazepam. I walked around the neurosurgery department where I was then admitted, went to relieve myself, returned to my room and also went to bed, at night my head started to hurt again, the right half of my body began to weaken, but this time I already knew what to do, I took a pill hawthorn, and everything went away. But somehow I couldn’t sleep, I took out the evening phenazepam, bit off a small piece, about 1/8 of a tablet. And he fell asleep very quickly. In the morning I was taken to the treatment room to have my finger and vein blood tested, and I was also asked to go into a room called a latrine in the navy, and fill a plastic cup there with a natural liquid with a lemonade flavor :-) and then put the cup down with her on a table in the corridor, placing some piece of paper with a stamp under it, After taking the tests, I was taken back to the ward, where breakfast and morning rounds were already in full swing, after breakfast a nurse came to me with a drip, I asked what there? she says piracetam. I think, damn! again this stupid piracetam. I said that I don’t need piracetam, I already feel good without it. She called the doctor, I told him the same thing as the nurse, to which he replied that their patients after TIA are given drips with piracetam and vinpocetine (Cavinton). For a long time I tried to convince him not to put these drugs on, but he listened to me patiently and at the same time talked about the benefits of these drugs, although I already knew a lot about them. As a result, I had to tell him a made-up story on the fly. That when I was still in school, in high school, I was also prescribed piracetam, I came to the treatment room of the children's clinic, where the nurse gave me an injection of piracetam in the fifth point, after which I got so angry that I bit the nurse, and another doctor who ran to her screams. After the doctor listened to my story, he turned slightly pale and said that then we would do without piracetam, and he also forgot about Cavinton in droppers. The next day they no longer offered me IVs, they only brought a standard set of tablets + a Cavinton tablet, the tablets were sent along the already known route, in a hawthorn box. And I myself drank hawthorn three times a day, and as a result, during the day there were no signs of TIA, and I slept well at night. The next morning the headache was completely gone. That day I had a CT scan, according to all examinations everything was normal, and I was discharged to a day hospital, where they gave me electrosleep for a week, gave me three Cavinton tablets with me for the day, and then discharged me. After discharge, I steamed and drank crushed hawthorn fruits from filter bags produced in Moscow, three times a day, for about a week, and all the consequences of TIA went away as if nothing had happened. Plus, my sleep returned to normal, my memory and mood improved, and I became calmer. Besides, sometimes my heart used to hurt after training, but now it doesn’t hurt. It also increased masculine strength, men will understand what I mean) I would have continued to drink hawthorn infusion (not alcoholic) but I was so tormented by the allergy to it that I had to stop drinking it. Yes, and they usually drink it in a 20-day course, although here, that’s what happened, in place with Evalar’s hawthorn cardio active tablets.
PS Aminalon is a good drug, my great-grandmother took it, and she lived until she was 81 years old with sound mind and sound memory. And there is no need to joke here that I drank Aminalon from her reserves. I bought Aminalon fresh, in a good pharmacy, it does not look like a fake. Aminalon just didn’t suit me because of the side effects and individual intolerance to this drug.
I used to take piracetam, but it gave me some kind of nervous excitement and problems with sleep. After reading a lot of literature, I finally found a nootropic without side effects, with a calming effect - aminalon. I started drinking it two tablets a day. On the first day I noticed a slight allergy, my skin began to itch, well, that’s just a side effect. And most importantly, from the first pill my mood improved, my head somehow became clearer, my memory became better and my thinking improved. In general, the first day on Aminalon was just great. I even took a guitar, went to the embankment and began to sing songs, which I haven’t done for a long time. In three hours I made 600 rubles. Then I ate a delicious meal with this money at a coffee shop. Arriving home in the evening, I easily fell asleep, although I had problems sleeping before. The next day also went well, only after taking aminalon in the evening, I felt a more severe allergy and some kind of short-term burning of the scalp, I read the instructions, it seemed like everything was from a set of standard side effects for this drug, I didn’t pay much attention to it and went to bed sleep. The next morning I woke up with a more severe allergy, my eyes became red and watery, hives appeared on my arm, and snot started flowing from my nose. I took an antihistamine and the allergy went away. That day I decided not to take aminalon, but to continue taking it the next day at a lower dose or with an antihistamine. The next day I took the Aminalon tablet, and almost immediately I felt something wrong, as if the right side of my body was weakening, and some strange sensations appeared in the left half of my head. At first I didn’t pay attention to it, because... the main effect of the drug was the same, I thought that these were just some side effects that would soon go away. A little later, I started feeling dizzy, I went to bed, I think I’ll lie down for a while and everything will pass, after all, the jocks eat GABA (the active ingredient of aminalone) in tablespoons and they should at least give a damn. But it was not to be, a severe headache began, the back of the head tightened, everything around me was spinning and blurry. In this state, I lay on the bed for about half an hour, but when my head just started to split, and I began to stop feeling my right hand, and my tongue began to fall somewhere to the right in my mouth, I realized that everything was here. will not go away, and that in general this is all very similar to a stroke, and some measures need to be taken to relieve this condition. There was a very appropriate chair near the bed, leaning on it, I finally got to the kitchen, threw in 20 tablets of activated carbon, washed it down with water, the result didn’t take long to arrive, I started to feel better, at first everything stopped spinning and blurring, then I started again I began to feel my right hand. Taking with me noshpa, Evalar hawthorn KA, paracetamol, water and a blood pressure monitor, I returned to the bedroom and lay down on the bed. I measured my blood pressure - 120/80. I think the blood pressure is normal, I’m young, healthy, I don’t drink or smoke, I go in for sports, the blood vessels are clean and strong, which means it’s definitely not a hemorrhagic stroke, and somehow it doesn’t look like a stroke, since the neurological symptoms began to regress so quickly. And then I remembered that I had recently read on the Internet about transient ischemic attacks, and I realized that this was exactly it. I boldly drank noshpa, and felt better almost immediately. Then I added a hawthorn cardio active tablet, the headache almost stopped, and normal sensitivity on the right side of the body returned. A little later, my mother came home, came into my bedroom, saw a blood pressure monitor, pills, and me lying in a state of slight fright. He asks what happened (I didn’t think to say right away that my blood pressure just jumped), and he told her everything as it happened. She called an ambulance without listening to me, and for some reason told them that I had had a stroke, although I was already walking around the apartment normally, and everything was fine with my right hand too. My tongue no longer tilted to the right and I spoke perfectly, only my head hurt a little, apparently there was still a slight spasm of blood vessels. In general, my mother was more scared than me, I gave her hawthorn and tryptophan, she calmed down almost immediately. The ambulance, surprisingly, arrived quickly, in about 20 minutes. I told them what happened to me, the doctor checked my reflexes, stability in the Romberg position, sensitivity on the left and right sides of the body, checked muscle strength, and asked me to stick out my tongue. He talked a little more with me and diagnosed me with “Transient cerebrovascular accident”, and he also partly agreed that it could just be a paradoxical reaction to Aminalon and nothing more, but still suggested that I be examined in the hospital for three days . In order not to worry my mother, I agreed to go by ambulance to the hospital, in addition to a change of clothes and slippers, I took noshpa, hawthorn, paracetamol and an antihistamine with me to the hospital (as it turned out later, it was not in vain). On the very first day they did an ECG, EEG, REG, asked about my complaints at the moment, I said that nothing was bothering me, only my head ached slightly on the left side, they gave me an acetylsalicylic acid tablet, said that I would take it later, and then hid it in a box from under hawthorn) because I have a severe allergy to aspirin. It was late in the evening, we were fed dinner, the medical staff handed out the pills, and everyone slowly began to go to bed. I didn’t take the pills again, but hid them in a hawthorn box, because this time they brought aspirin again and for some reason the whole milligram of phenazepam. I walked around the neurosurgery department where I was then admitted, went to relieve myself, returned to my room and also went to bed, at night my head started to hurt again, the right half of my body began to weaken, but this time I already knew what to do, I took a pill hawthorn, and everything went away. But somehow I couldn’t sleep, I took out the evening phenazepam, bit off a small piece, about 1/8 of a tablet. And he fell asleep very quickly. In the morning I was taken to the treatment room to have my finger and vein blood tested, and I was also asked to go into a room called a latrine in the navy, and fill a plastic cup there with a natural liquid with a lemonade flavor :-) and then put the cup down with her on a table in the corridor, placing some piece of paper with a stamp under it, After taking the tests, I was taken back to the ward, where breakfast and morning rounds were already in full swing, after breakfast a nurse came to me with a drip, I asked what there? she says piracetam. I think, damn! again this stupid piracetam. I said that I don’t need piracetam, I already feel good without it. She called the doctor, I told him the same thing as the nurse, to which he replied that their patients after TIA are given drips with piracetam and vinpocetine (Cavinton). For a long time I tried to convince him not to put these drugs on, but he listened to me patiently and at the same time talked about the benefits of these drugs, although I already knew a lot about them. As a result, I had to tell him a made-up story on the fly. That when I was still in school, in high school, I was also prescribed piracetam, I came to the treatment room of the children's clinic, where the nurse gave me an injection of piracetam in the fifth point, after which I got so angry that I bit the nurse, and another doctor who ran to her screams. After the doctor listened to my story, he turned slightly pale and said that then we would do without piracetam, and he also forgot about Cavinton in droppers. The next day they no longer offered me IVs, they only brought a standard set of tablets + a Cavinton tablet, the tablets were sent along the already known route, in a hawthorn box. And I myself drank hawthorn three times a day, and as a result, during the day there were no signs of TIA, and I slept well at night. The next morning the headache was completely gone. That day I had a CT scan, according to all examinations everything was normal, and I was discharged to a day hospital, where they gave me electrosleep for a week, gave me three Cavinton tablets with me for the day, and then discharged me. After discharge, I steamed and drank crushed hawthorn fruits from filter bags produced in Moscow, three times a day, for about a week, and all the consequences of TIA went away as if nothing had happened. Plus, my sleep returned to normal, my memory and mood improved, and I became calmer. Besides, sometimes my heart used to hurt after training, but now it doesn’t hurt. It also increased masculine strength, men will understand what I mean) I would have continued to drink hawthorn infusion (not alcoholic) but I was so tormented by the allergy to it that I had to stop drinking it. Yes, and they usually drink it in a 20-day course, although here, that’s what happened, in place with Evalar’s hawthorn cardio active tablets.
PS Aminalon is a good drug, my great-grandmother took it, and she lived until she was 81 years old with sound mind and sound memory. And there is no need to joke here that I drank Aminalon from her reserves. I bought Aminalon fresh, in a good pharmacy, it does not look like a fake. Aminalon just didn’t suit me because of the side effects and individual intolerance to this drug.
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GABA in bodybuilding
It is valuable due to the stimulation of the anterior pituitary gland, that is, the ability to activate the synthesis of growth hormone. GABA is taken to achieve a good fat-burning effect, and also because the substance has anabolic properties. These are not the only reasons for the popularity of amino acids in bodybuilding.
Taking the substance has a multifaceted positive effect on the athlete:
- helps improve concentration;
- improves sleep quality;
- has a direct impact on the formation of body relief;
- has a calming effect, but stimulates muscle activity;
- has no toxicity.
Side effects
Drugs containing GABA have virtually no negative effect on the body, including as a result of taking an increased dosage. Side effects most often include anxiety, panic, sweating, nausea, and in rare cases, vomiting.
Sometimes, after taking an amino acid, unstable blood pressure or an increase in body temperature may occur. People with chronic sleep problems, as well as kidney failure, are contraindicated to take the substance. For some, the active substance causes allergies. If an overdose occurs, the stomach is washed and rested.
Indications for use
The instructions for the drug Aminalon indicate the following indications for use:
- atherosclerosis of the cerebral arteries, accompanied by softening of the brain;
- arterial hypertension;
- consequences of traumatic brain injuries, circulatory disorders in the brain;
- vascular diseases in the brain, especially accompanied by headaches and dizziness;
- impairments of memory, speech, attention due to chronic cerebrovascular insufficiency;
- alcoholic polyneuritis and encephalopathy;
- symptom complex of motion sickness (sea sickness).
Aminalon is prescribed for children for the treatment of:
- consequences of birth and traumatic brain injuries;
- decreased mental activity and mental retardation;
- cerebral palsy;
- motion sickness symptom complex.
Aminalon is a fairly safe drug and has virtually no contraindications.
This drug is not prescribed to patients with hypersensitivity to the active component of the drug. Aminalon is also not recommended for acute renal and liver failure.
Assessing the effectiveness of GABA
Research conducted since 2003 in various countries around the world has demonstrated that the substance really brings results. Gamma-aminobutyric acid has been confirmed to produce more growth hormone during exercise.
And if early experiments covered a wide audience, then since 2008, research began to be carried out exclusively with those involved in bodybuilding. They completely confirmed the earlier results. Growth hormone is synthesized faster if you take GABA. On average, the concentration increases 6 times.