>considerably, so I agree that both these components are important. I
>have also just started using 5-HTP (the new serotonin precursor) and
>it seems to help me more than melatonin.

        (Sound of my jaw dropping.)  5-htp is hydroxytryptophan.  You mean you are
able to get trytophan in the US again?!!!  Where? I had to stock up on it
last time I was in Italy.  But since my husband has been on the Atkins
diet, he has not had any panic or depression spells.  (And he needs less
sleep.)

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