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Before you take tyrosine, please check for any possible contraindications in the “Caution Box” on pages 199–200 in chapter 10. Then start by taking only 1 capsule of tyrosine first thing in the morning, before drinking any coffee. In fact, try to skip your coffee altogether that day (and, hopefully every day, with the help of tyrosine).

Stan started his antidepressant experiment with one 500 milligram capsule of tyrosine and experienced positive results right away. If you feel no benefit in thirty minutes (it usually takes only ten), take a second 500- milligram capsule. If you still feel little or nothing after another thirty minutes, take a third.

Few people need more than 2 capsules at a time, unless they’ve been using lots of coffee or other, harder, stimulants like cocaine. But they do need to take them two to three times a day at first: early morning, midmorning, and midafternoon, if they tend to have a three P.M. slump. (If you’re a poor sleeper, however, keep your midafternoon dose no higher than 1 or 2 capsules, and take it no later than three P.M. Like coffee, tyrosine might interfere with your brain’s efforts to build up your natural sleeping potion, melatonin, as I explain in chapter 12.)