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5-HTP
Nutritional
Support For:
• Sleeplessness
• Anxiety
• Mild Depression
• Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
5-hydroxytryptophan
(5-HTP) is the less well known cousin of serotonin (5-HT), one of
the most important brain neurotransmitters. Tryptophan is first
converted to 5-HTP in nerve cells by a vitamin B3 dependant enzyme,
and then 5-HTP is converted to 5-HT by a vitamin B6 dependant enzyme.
Yet thanks to modern science, we can now take preformed 5-HTP, with
many consequent advantages.
5-HTP passes through the blood brain barrier into the brain far
more easily than tryptophan, and getting tryptophan through the
blood brain barrier is the main bottleneck, which in many people
leads to inadequate brain serotonin levels. Also, 5-HTP is not used
to make proteins in the body, while tryptophan is, so there isn’t
competition by cells outside the brain for 5-HTP, as there is for
the body’s scarce tryptophan supplies. The body often uses
tryptophan to make vitamin B3, at a very high cost of 60mg tryptophan
to make just 1mg B3! 5-HTP is not wasted to make vitamin B3.
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