So I've been messing with beta alanine (BA) and it causes a mild form of pruritus' no where near as extreme as nicotinic acid on an empty stomach. I've been me

So I've been messing with beta alanine (BA) and it causes a mild form of pruritus' no where near as extreme as nicotinic acid on an empty stomach. I've been messing with manganese chloride recently and this dampens down the pruritus experience. But up until this morning I was under the impression from some studies that BA increases SOD. Today however I found some studies which claim it increases something called TAC and glutathione and not SOD. So back to looking into SOD in more detail and this seems to be a metalloenzyme, which seem to start with zinc and one of 4 amino acids, cysteine, histidine, aspartic acid and glutamic acid. This is the problem with studies from different parts of the world, they make assertions which might be inaccurate because of when the scientist(s) was/were taught, and what that country/uni was teaching at the time or last "updated". There are so many theories in biology, its hard to know what to believe, and thats before I get into the false assertations made using links to other studies, where I've actually clicked the link to check the assertation and the study has made no such assertion, if not the opposite! Maybe if you could identify the cause of the crash that might give you a clue. I've always found turning the AC on to chill the room would wake me up, thats the adrenaline kicking in from the cold. Its difficult to say for some things like this. Maybe start with a zinc supplement and see what cravings arise from there. Stepping up the zinc after a week 5 or 10mg and go from there. If you get no cravings, try supplementing with cysteine, histidine or aspartic acid and see what happens. Thats all I do, and then see what studies exist to support my experiences.