anyone here taken tryptophan? what were your experiences
i bought some to help me sleep, and i took 1.5G of FTH tryptophan + a multi + a glass of orange juice at the same time before bed last night... didnt help me sleep, but today at work i was WAY less stressed out and upset about something thats been bothering me lately... the thoughts just didnt seem to repeat in my head like they have been for the past week or two.
i just took 2 grams + a co-enzyme B complex + a glass of OJ... so im waitingt to see how it effects me tomorrow.
the B's and the vit-C helps to convert tryptophan into 5htp, and the sugar in the OJ causes the body to secret insulin... insulin tells cells to pull amino acids except tryptophan out of the blood stream for storage. So, tryptophan keeps circulating and is available for neurons that use it to make serotonin.
group of rats at 8 am in the morning, and to another group of rats at 8 PM at night. Four hours after administration, researchers measured the blood and brain fluid levels of serotonin and melatonin. During daytime administration, tryptophan raised the levels of serotonin. Interestingly, when tryptophan was given at night, serotonin levels did not increase, but melatonin levels increased significantly. Therefore, the serotonin that was generated by tryptophan administration was being converted into melatonin
Edited by ajnast4r, 16 September 2005 - 10:07 PM.