Talk:Tryptophan

Template:Wikiproject MCB Tryptophan appears to be sort-of legal now. See the following for details:

http://www.erowid.org/smarts/tryptophan/tryptophan_law.shtml

According to this page, there is about 320 mg per 3.5 oz of turkey. It also says there is about the same amount in chicken and ground beef.

http://www.chemistry.org/portal/a/c/s/1/feature_ent.html?DOC=enthusiasts%5Cent_tryptophan.html

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I edited something in the pop culture section. The turkey link was referring to the country of Turkey. Fixed.

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The section about tryptophan and turkey previously said there was some tryptophan -> niacin -> serotonin pathway. This is wrong. The correct pathway is tryptophan -> 5-HTP -> serotonin. See the serotonin article. Simonster 05:57, 8 January 2006 (UTC)

No treatment?

Because no patent is available for tryptophan, it is not likely to be used commonly as a treatment for Dysthymia and SAD despite its apparent effectiveness. Why should it be like this? Do only patented medicines get reputation for treatmentability? --Abdull 09:28, 27 May 2006 (UTC)

No not at all. many currently unpatented medicines are used in treatments. this strikes me as claptrap, and it think it should be removed. i will take it on myself to do so in 3 days time. Xcomradex 01:49, 30 May 2006 (UTC)

That either didn't happen or got reverted, so I've done it. Gareth McCaughan 23:43, 30 August 2006 (UTC)

Ban

How can tryptophan be banned when it is a essential amino acids? wouldn't this be like banning water? --Abdull 09:37, 27 May 2006 (UTC)

It's not anything that contains tryptophan that is banned, just purified and concentrated tryptophan. Still, I agree, it's ridiculous. —Keenan Pepper 16:47, 27 May 2006 (UTC)

Notes on Tryptophan article

[[1]] Article with references to back it up. Putting it here temporarily so we can check to see what info is missing from the article and determine if the link or info from the link is suitable to post. What mostly prompted this post is a quote from the article:

"At the same hearing, Dr. Wurtman stated: Tryptophan in a bottle is not a nutritional supplement. In protein, it comes with 21 other amino acids, and you need all of them in order to utilize them and make protein. Pure tryptophan in pills or in a bottle is not natural. . . . The body cannot use it to make its own protein. There is not a single person in America who is tryptophan-deficient. Isolated amino acid deficiencies do not occur. People who have low blood tryptophan levels also have low blood levels of other essential amino acids as well, because these people are protein-deficient. Giving one amino acid to a protein-deficient person can make matters worse [9]."--geekyßroad^{. meow?} 08:11, 14 July 2006 (UTC)

Without decent references this article is worthless

I think it would be necessary to use medical publications as a source for this article.

It looks like an ADVERTISEMENT at the moment! It is to me as credible as the paper I use to wipe my 'you know what'.

I think the author might have a health food store where they sell tryptophan? Or why would they otherwise put up an article with no references? C'mon!

Why even bother if you dont bother googling up med pub sources and then digging those for results. Its never been easier, so I would say the author couldn't have been lazier.

Show some effort or remove it.

Question about meat, and comments on above comments.

It reads "meat, fish, turkey, chicken" in part of the artical. Should that be "red meat"? I mean, fish, turkey, and chicken are all meat.

And the FDA is very corrupt. They tried to get rid of tryptophan for years, and as soon as they had an excuse, they did so, just before Prozac came out. Some FDA workers also work for the companies they are suppose to be regulating.

There is a lot of evidence about that, and on occassion a few convinctions.

I'm going to go check out and update if necessary the wikipedia artical about the FDA now with some crediable referances.

Oh, and when it was illegal for humans, many people on health boards, myself included, just got it in the form of a powder designed for use by horses. user talk = dream focus