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Andrew
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 Posted: Thu May 19, 2005 2:07 pm Post subject:
Tryptophan
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About 25-30 years ago when I was in my early 20s, I had an unusual
eating disorder, eating massive numbers of bananas everyday. If I
remember at the peak I was eating maybe 75 bananas a day. Recently, I
read it is the tryptophan that makes bananas addicting. What makes
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Attila the Bum
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It smells like bananas. |
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Zigoteau
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Hi, Andrew,
| Quote: | About 25-30 years ago when I was in my early 20s, I had an unusual
eating disorder, eating massive numbers of bananas everyday. If I
remember at the peak I was eating maybe 75 bananas a day. Recently, I
read it is the tryptophan that makes bananas addicting. What makes
tryptophan addicting?
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The web has heard of an addiction to bananas,
(http://www.albemarle-london.com/krappslast.html,
http://www.venturacollegepress.com/media/paper416/news/2004/05/03/Passion/The-Psychology.Of.Addiction-677550.shtml,
http://www.conquestbm.com/dscontact.htm) although I have never come
across it personally. It is true that serotonin is produced in the body
from tryptophan (http://asktom-naturally.com/articles/addictive.html).
Serotonin is the feel-good neurotransmitter boosted by prozac and
similar happy pills, and tryptophan is supposed to relieve depression.
Cheers,
Zigoteau. |
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Mark Thorson
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| Posted: Thu May 19, 2005 5:34 pm Post subject:
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Andrew wrote:
| Quote: | About 25-30 years ago when I was in my early 20s, I had an
unusual eating disorder, eating massive numbers of bananas
everyday. If I remember at the peak I was eating maybe
75 bananas a day. Recently, I read it is the tryptophan that
makes bananas addicting. What makes tryptophan addicting?
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Tryptophan? I think you mean serotonin.
Check this out:
http://yarchive.net/med/5-htp.html |
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muha
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Try to drink some banana beer. Hooch made from bananas is supposed to
deliver a strong punch. Some tribes even used it to produce anesthesia
for surical procedures. With 75bananas a day, maybe you just acted as a
big banana fermentor.
I think you are not serious because 75 bananas is something like
20kilo. By any chance, is your previous nick TVClarkson? |
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Ron Jones
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Attila the Bum wrote:
| Quote: | It smells like bananas.
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Smells like our usual troll to me ....
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From: "Andrew" <KellyClarksonTV@cs.com>
Newsgroups: sci.chem
Subject: Tryptophan
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Andrew Tweddle
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muha wrote:
| Quote: | Try to drink some banana beer. Hooch made from bananas is supposed to
deliver a strong punch. Some tribes even used it to produce anesthesia
for surical procedures. With 75bananas a day, maybe you just acted as a
big banana fermentor.
I think you are not serious because 75 bananas is something like
20kilo. By any chance, is your previous nick TVClarkson?
Yeah he's that irritating troll with the ass problem, irritates the |
electronics newsgroups. |
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Zigoteau
science forum addict
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Hi, Mark,
Thanks, that's very informative.
Cheers,
Zigoteau. |
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