Ginko and Prolactin

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Seth Roberts cleared it up: say you weigh 220 lbs.=100Kg.. You take your weight in Kg.=100 x 10 mg. (1/5 the most effective dosage in the rat studies, in order to adjust for rats having a much greater metabolic rate)= 1000 mg. Now if your extract is a 50:1 extract (which the NOW brand is), a 60 mg. cap of extract is produced from 3 g. of Ginko--much more than the 1 g. you need.

In other words seth was saying that one 60 mg. cap/day should be enough to see prolactin inhibiting effects in anyone.

Pop those caps!


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did they use whole leaf or extract in the study?

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It just says Ginko, it never specifies it as an extract.

Seth also thinks (though he said he wasn't sure) that Ginko probably has a short half-life, and thus one would benefit from multiple doses of a lower potency extract: e.g., 20 mg. (at the 24/6% standardization) 3 x day, rather than 60 mg. 1 x day.

Although, as inexpensive as it is I see no reason not to just use 60 mg. 3 x day--that's still within the safety margin to avoid negative side effects. Another person commented that 240 mg. of a standardized extract is generally as high as people go on dosing Ginko.

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