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Gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA) is an amino acid that does not get incorporated into proteins, but instead plays an important role in regulating the activity of nerve cells.

It is the chief inhibitory neurotransmitter in the central nervous system and in the retina, and can also be excitatory under some circumstances.

GABA is closely related to another biomolecule called GHB (gamma-hydroxybutyrate); GABA and GHB are interconvertible in the brain.

GHB was a very useful and inexpensive supplement for promoting relaxation and sleep until it was foolishly banned in the U.S. and other countries as part of the fiasco known as the "War-On-Drugs".

GHB, unlike GABA, readily crosses the blood-brain barrier; once in the brain, GHB is converted into GABA which then calms over-excited nerves.

Since GABA crosses the blood-brain barrier less easily than GHB, larger doses are required to achieve the same goals.

The Wikipedia offers a good overview of GABA and its actions in the body.

A less technical review from "Iron Magazine" is also useful despite its uncritical acceptance of government-spawned propaganda about GHB.

What we can't tell you in the U.S. and some other industrialized countries, government agencies like the U.S. Food and Drug Administration have adopted censorship as a method for intensifying their control over the supplement industry and its customers.

Thus, FDA regulations prohibit us from telling you that any of our products are effective as medical treatments, even if they are, in fact, effective.

Accordingly, we will limit our discussion of GABA to a brief summary of relevant research, and let you draw your own conclusions about what medical conditions it may be effective in treating.

As a supplement, GABA has received less attention from medical researchers than it deserves.

The handful of scientifically conducted clinical trials that have been conducted since 1980 have reported positive results with certain usages of GABA, but many interesting applications have never been investigated scientifically.

GABA supplementation has been shown to be effective for: stimulating the pituitary gland to secrete more Human Growth Hormone, Increasing protein synthesis in brain, muscle, and liver, inducing relaxation, reducing anxiety, enhancing immunity during stress, reducing high blood pressure, increasing blood insulin levels.

In addition to the directly demonstrated actions listed above, the following actions are suggested by indirect scientific evidence: improve schizophrenic symptoms, promote loss of excess body fat, build muscle. And then there are the GABA usages that have never been properly investigated scientifically.

For these we have to rely on anecdotal evidence: anti-aging... making users feel youthful and energetic improving the skin, darkening hair, inducing sleep, improving the quality of sleep, causing more interesting, vivid dreaming, diminishing arthritis pain and lower back pain reducing symptoms.

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