Pharmacological ways to reduce stutter

Pharmacological ways to reduce stutter Hi, while it's okay to stutter and that it's acceptation as being part of neurodiversity should be normalized, I'd like to bring awareness that some causes of stuttering might be slighly reduced via pharmacology. \> [https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32438123/](https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32438123/) I am not familiar with speech therapies but it seems very useful \>  On average, stuttering frequency was reduced by 50-57 % using speech restructuring approaches. IMO the two main causes of stuttering have different etiologies, one being performance anxiety which is driven by increase in heart rate, dry mouth, etc through adrenaline For people that have performance anxiety, very low dose of beta blockers like propanolol are well known to be effective [https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9456064/](https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9456064/) It is important to understand that while propanolol at low dose is very safe, 1) taking too much can be dangerous and cause bradychardia 2) CYP inhibition must be checked if you take other medications stuttering can also be caused by some specific cognitive or motor deficits, in that case nootropics can be tried although most have no evidence or annecdotal evidence of working, they are generally benign A promising one being CDP choline 500mg though since this community has not tested it enough, we can't have response rate statistics. Also efficacy could take up to a month to show. [https://www.reddit.com/r/Stutter/comments/481rpc/choline\_and\_stutter/](https://www.reddit.com/r/Stutter/comments/481rpc/choline_and_stutter/) Other contenders being magnesium l threonate, alcar, piracetam Of note the scientific literature shows that they can be helpful in many conditions, e.g. dyslexia and some aspects of verbal fluency The third paradigm are stimulants or eugeroics, while they are cardiotoxic and can be anxiogenic, they often increase verbal fluency [https://www.reddit.com/r/ADHD/comments/8cnut5/did\_you\_find\_that\_adderallvyvanse\_reduced\_your/](https://www.reddit.com/r/ADHD/comments/8cnut5/did_you_find_that_adderallvyvanse_reduced_your/) Scientific progress rely on community feedback to clarify what works and what doesn't