Still 50 mg. I actually take it early in the day now, and it seems to help uplift my mood/mental clarity. It’s not 100% though. At night I take a tiny amount of melatonin and that helps with the sleep.
Hey faded, I am also a long time user (9 years) from NY. Do you feel like the mental clarity has resulted in better sexual function as well?
If you take 5-Htp before bed Serotonin —> turns into Melatonin
Yeah, when I first took it (2010), I did it before bed. During this run though (2012-2013) I found the effect was less predictable at night- sometimes it would make me sleep but other times it would make my mind race. I may give it another go at night but right now my younger kid is not sleeping well so I get jarred awake regardless.
Finatruth: While better mental function and sexual function seemed to arrive together, I don’t know that the 5-htp was responsible for both. All of this came after Xmas where I was also resting a lot and was off work for 10 days. I’m kind of on a downturn right now (not too bad) so I’m puzzling a bit as to what is helping or not.
yeah, pretty sure
have a problem with taking GABA with 5-HTP ?
Faded is this still helping you? Can you post an update?
The jury is out as to whether this helped or not, or I simply have been having gains naturally. I stopped taking all through February after it seemed to stop working. Then about a week ago I had a bit of a mood downturn and started taking it again. It seems to have helped, but again, it’s subtle, and tricky to know whether my body would have been the same on its own, or placebo effect. I can definitely say that when I tried HTP in 2009 for just sleep trouble (pre crash but still on fin) it definitely helped.