Posted by bleauberry on August 22, 2009, at 10:33:28
In reply to Re: Rapid and dramatic improvement from 5-HTP?, posted by linkadge on August 21, 2009, at 18:22:32
> >At those doses, there is little danger of >anything
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> Maybe maybe not. 5-htp is not really natural. Even 10mg is way more than you could ever get naturally from seeds. The body normally converts tryptophan to serotonin in the brain. 5-htp bypasses this. If it is enough to increases serotonin receptor singalling in the brain, it is enough to increases serotonin receptor singalling in the periphery.
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> LinkadgeWell, you could be right Link. I say that because a mere 5mg 5htp causes me severe sexual side effects worse than an SSRI ever did. Maybe I needed to take the cofactors B6 and C with it for better brain metabolism, I dunno. Bottom line though, for me, even just 5mg 5htp made a lot of serotonin. I friek out when I see people taking more than 50mg a day.
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