Posted by laima on July 26, 2006, at 10:12:38
In reply to Re: Anyone tried Tryptophan for sleep? » laima, posted by dessbee on July 26, 2006, at 5:12:55
Thanks dessbee.Alas, I just discovered that it is not to be used by anyone who is using an MAOI, like me on EMSAM, due to risk of seratonin syndrome. The bottle said, "Not for use with maois or ssris". Someone just wrote about this, I think it's on the "alternative" forum.
> statement by the FDA from February, 2001:
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> "A firm is not required to obtain premarket review or approval from the FDA of its products before marketing them as dietary supplements. Moreover, a firm is not required to submit scientific evidence to FDA of the safety of its products or ingredients. While we are unaware of conclusive scientific data that would establish that a dietary supplement L-tryptophan would be safe, if a firm has information that it believes establishes that a product containing L-tryptophan is safe within the meaning of the Act, it could market such a product as a dietary supplement."
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> http://www.erowid.org/smarts/tryptophan/tryptophan_law.shtml
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> L-tryptophan: An isomer of the amino acid tryptophan that is a precursor in the formation of serotonin.
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