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Natural Mood Elevator and Antidepressant
5-HTP, found in Serotain™, has been shown to be effective as a mood elevator and for treating the symptoms of clinical depression1.
Natural Appetite Supressant
5-HTP, found in Serotain™ has been shown to increase weight loss by decreasing appetite(1).
Research is available on 5-HTP and weight loss. Early animal studies with 5-HTP in the 1970's were followed up by a series of three clinical human studies conducted at the University of Rome's Internal Medicine Department under the direction of Carlo Cangiano and Fabrizio(8,9,10).
A 1992 study with obese subjects in Italy found that 5-HTP produced "significant weight loss". Specifically, 5-HTP helped patients reduce their carbohydrate intake and gave them a feeling of "early satiety"- that they had eaten enough and felt calorically satisfied. This, in turn led to a reduced food intake and, from there, weight loss was at hand(7).
Natural Sleep Aid
The extracted 5-HTP, found in Serotain™ works to gently induce sleep not only by its conversion to serotonin but, also by its subsequent conversion to melatonin, the body's primary sleep hormone(1).
1. Sahelian, 1998. 5-HTP, Natures serotonin solution, 1st. Ed., Avery Publishing Group, Inc. Garden City Park, NY.
7. Anderson, John. Natural Help for Weight Gain, Migraines, Insomnia, Anxiety and Depression, Alt. Med. (25) 1998.
8. Journal of Neural Transmission 76(1989): 109-17.
9. C. Cangiano et al., "Effects of 5-hydroxytryptophan on eating behavior and adherence to dietary prescriptions in obese adult subjects", Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology 294 (1991): 591-93.
10. C. Cangiano., "Eating behavior and adherence to dietary prescriptions in obese adult subject treated with 5- hydroxytryptophan," American Journal of Clinical Nutrition 56 (1992): 863-67.
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