What Is The Best Choline Source? 1 Acetylcholine is a neurotransmitter known to play a role in memory, movement, and learning. It is one of a few key neurotransmitters that nootropics commonly affect. Some nootropics change the way acetylcholine works in the brain, while others increase acetylcholine levels. In this post, we’re going to be comparing nootropics that increase acetylcholine levels.
The nootropics we’re going to look at all provide choline, a substance the body uses to create acetylcholine. The question is: what is the best choline source? But before we answer this question, let’s examine what choline and acetylcholine are.
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3 Nootropic Choline Sources
3.1 1. Alpha-GPC
3.2 2. CDP-Choline
3.3 3. Choline Bitartrate
3.4 4. Other Choline Sources
Though not technically a vitamin, choline is an essential nutrient with vitamin-like properties. 1 While our bodies do produce some choline, they don’t produce enough to meet our needs and must get it from food. 2 Dietary sources of choline include meat, eggs, fish, poultry, cruciferous vegetables, peanuts, and dairy products. 3 Choline has a number of functions in the human body. One of its most important functions is as a precursor for other molecules. Precursors are compounds our bodies use to create other substances. 4 One of the substances our bodies create from choline is acetylcholine. 5 This is a neurotransmitter that our bodies create from choline. Neurotransmitters are chemical messengers the nervous system uses to communicate. 6 Examples of other neurotransmitters include serotonin, dopamine, GABA, and glutamate.Acetylcholine is found in both the central nervous system (CNS) and the peripheral nervous system (PNS). 7 In the CNS, acetylcholine is known to play a role in learning and memory. 8 It has also been shown to affect wakefulness 9 and to help maintain attention. 10 Lots of different nootropics have been shown to affect acetylcholine levels in the brain. By increasing levels of this neurotransmitter, choline-boosting nootropics can improve memory, learning, and attention. Now let’s take a look at some specific choline sources. 1. Alpha-GPC This is a choline compound found naturally […]
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