“Stress and anxiety are really common in companion birds.
There’s all sorts of symptoms associated, things like pacing, feather chewing, aggression towards their owners. Parrot B-Calm is the world’s first complete diet for birds that includes the ability to calm the bird down. With the use of a common amino acid.
By lifting the level in the diet, we can aid the prevention, the easing, and that gentle calming that you want to see in your birds.
How does Parrot BCalm work?
Well, BCalm uses that amino acid that I mentioned called L-tryptophan. The L-tryptophan is a very small molecule and it crosses the blood-brain barrier and actually enters the brain. Within the brain…an enzymatic reaction happens to convert the L-tryptophan to serotonin. Now serotonin is the critical one because it then is the key for the messages coming down the neurons to be able to pass across the little gap between them. So a message can go from this neuron to that neuron and it’s serotonin in the middle that does that.
If the levels of serotonin are not adequate, then the message gets blocked. It can’t pass on. And that’s what causes the dysfunction of the neurons within the brain leading to the aggression, the stress, the behaviours that we don’t want to see.”
