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A dietary amino acid that serves as a precursor for dopamine and noradrenaline, helping replenish catecholamines depleted by acute stress.
Evidence supports a narrow, situational benefit rather than general cognitive enhancement. Small human trials show tyrosine preserves working memory, vigilance and reasoning specifically under acute stressors such as sleep deprivation, cold, or high multitasking load (e.g., improved working-memory accuracy in a multitasking battery; reduced lapses after overnight sleep loss). It does not reliably improve cognition in rested, unstressed people, and the working hypothesis is that it only helps when catecholamines are temporarily depleted.
Trials commonly used 100-150 mg/kg (roughly 7-12 g for an adult) as a single acute dose before a stressor; lower daily doses are unproven.
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