Interesting supplement for insomnia

[Juice Authority]

http://www.superiornutraceuticals.com/products/L_tryptophan.htm

If this needs to be moved for whatever reason then I'm cool with it but I found this supp to be rather interesting for those of us that suffer from chronic insomnia.

L-Tryptophan USP
animal use only
What you will get is 600mg Pure Pharmaceutical
Grade L-Tryptophan, a great sleep aid and anti-anxiety aid for
your pet.
600mg 60 Caps $25.00

I guess this would be like the pharmacuetical version of eating a big turkey dinner.

 

[junk]

The shitty thing about L-Tryptophan is that you should really take it on an empty stomach with no other aminos in your blood which will compete with the L-Tryptophan. It's better to wait 3 whole hours without eating before taking it and then you shouldn't eat for another 20-30min. That leaves you in quite a catabolic state, not to mention that I always eat before going to sleep so that defeats the purpose. You could take dextrose with it to 'wash away' the other aminos from the bloodstream but that's not such a great practise before going to sleep as in itself it may cause problems sleeping. I've used L-Tryptophan (The human grade bought from Germnay) and wasn't all that impressed with the product even at 7grams a day.