5-HTP is not found in cheese. Tryptophan is found in cheese. Tryptophan becomes in part 5-HTP.
Sadly brand will matter as many companies use low quality herbs latent with pesticides and other nasties. GNC sucks. That is my opinion as a nutritionist.
I have taken 5-HTP for long periods of time with only positive results. I stopped taking it without problem.
This is something that is naturally produced by the body. The problem is that there is an extremely poor understanding of proper nutrition out there. Peoples diets tend to either lack tryptophan and peoples small intestines tend not to absorb nutrients from their food and supplements. Also serotonin production is greatly hampered by our stressful modern lives which are so full of pollutants.
No I didn’t. I only take either one or two tabs 50mg each.
This night I took 1 tablet and had a long sequence of dreams, very vivid. Even dreamt of an earthquaked town, with all the rubble. Went lucid once I think but lost lucidity soon…
I took 2 x 50mg tabs 4 hours ago but I just couldn’t get to sleep which is quite worrying and annoying. I think this is down to the fact that i’m pretty ill at the moment and not to do with taking the 5-HTP.
Well it’s a shame since I was looking forward to my dreams tonight. I’ll have to re-try tomorrow night
I wouldn’t be using this too often. As the wikipedia article states, it does cause problems (like mild serotonin toxicity, which causes tremors and strong bowel movements). For the most part, only use it if you really need it, like on weekends (which I assume to be the days that most people attempt their LD-ing). Stay safe guys
I’m heading down to my local supplement store, I found they have this half price: £7.50 for 60x50mg capsules
EDIT: Not sure if this has been answered before but I’d like to clear it up: The large amounts of Vitamin B6 in the drugs are there to help the enzymes break it down into serotonin and to get rid of any excess in the body.
Ok , this is weird … I asked in a pharmacy and the woman there claimed its prescription only
I really wonder wheter thats true (and no ! I will not try doing anything illegal no warnings needed )
Which continues ther queernness , an American shop which has a branch in switzerland offers to ship to Austria (and , even though they aren’t in the EU they will definetly keep away from such a Faux Pas )
The website of the ministry of health is a-MAZE-thing. …
But i will continue my recherche
As far as i see it will be worth it …
I have been trying this for a couple of days for the second time now at 200 mg a day. I have had a good frequency of LDs without this stuff but none with it. Also while taking this supplement I actually become more restless, Wake up more frequently and have amazingly vivid nightmares. Sometimes the nightmares invoking amazing fear at the moment of waking up even though I’m not terribly concerned while dreaming.
Normally I have excellent dream recall remembering 3 to 4 a night. so my advice is don’t bother with this stuff unless you really struggle. If you don’t struggle without it you properly just mess yourself up as I understand you’ll never get an LD if you’re too emotionally involved in the dream to begin with.
I’m this [] close to buying 5-HTP. I’ve been in the health store comparing brands for almost an hour. I found one that had vegi caps.(a must for me since I am super anti animal gelatin caps-yuck)
I first had the idea to take this because of my bad moods. I have a history of depression, but now it has turned into just irritation and introversion that I know is not fair to myself and others and I don’t like it. It really seems to me to be a slight chemical imbalance I have.
I have tried St. John’s Wort and that gave me some vivid dreams, but I hear the 5-HTP is better some I’m going to have to give this a try.
Like I said, this is first for my mood, but since this is ld4all, I’ll have to post my results when it comes to my dreaming. For besides not having very many LD’s lately, my dreams in general need a big boost.
I just bought a bottle that has 100mg vcaps. What’s strange is that it says to take 1 three times daily with food. But another bottle I read that seemed exactly the same but was a 50mg siad to take only once a day before bed.
So one company suggest taking 300mg and another suggest only 50mg in a day.
Big difference huh?
So this is what I am going to do. I will start by only taking one 100mg dose before bed for about 4 days. Then I will add another 100mg in the middle of the day for the rest of the week and pay extra attention to how I am feeling and of course Dreaming!