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Please give us a call and set up an initial consultation for your wife (it’s just $60) and we’ll get her what she needs.

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Dr. Chad

Great question! We work with people all over the world and have many clients in the UK. We can ship the products to you as needed and do follow ups over the phone or email.

If you’d like to get started, just give us a call or send us an email and we’ll get you set up for your initial consultation. I look forward to speaking with you!

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Dr. Chad

Kindest regards, Luiza, (24), York, England.

Thanks for sharing your experience. 5-HTP can help in the short term with sleep, as it helps to slow down the flow of information in the brain and is the direct precursor of melatonin. You may be one of the very few in the general population that actually suffers from a relative nutritional deficiency of tryptophan in the diet, and therefore need more 5-HTP to compensate. However, for the vast majority of people, taking only 5-HTP will cause depletion of dopamine over time.

Providing only 5-HTP does increase the amount of serotonin in the brain. In response to this, the body increases the amount of enzymes to break down some serotonin to maintain balance. However, these enzymes also breakdown dopamine, which is the main excitatory neurotransmitter that needs to be kept in balance with serotonin to keep everything working well. Because no dopamine precursor was given (i.e., L-tyrosine), relatively more dopamine than serotonin is broken down, so the imbalance between them becomes greater. This often leads to additional issues over time.

It works something like this: let’s say I have two bank accounts, both with $100 in them. I put $1,000,000 in one of them (which is like taking just 5-HTP), but leave the other one where it is. Now let’s say I take $90 out of both accounts (which is equivalent to the enzymes breaking down serotonin and dopamine non-selectively). The account with $1,000,000 isn’t affect much, but the account with only $100 in it is affected a great deal. Moreover, the imbalance between the two accounts has also gotten a lot more lopsided. This is similar to what happens if one takes only 5-HTP with no l-tyrosine (or vice versa, taking only l-tyrosine and no 5-HTP) – it can create greater imbalances over time and really deplete the competing system.

The key then is to provide the body a balanced blend of amino acids and precursors so that it can increase neurotransmitter levels in a balanced fashion. This will help eliminate symptoms due to the original imbalance without creating any new problems.

Thanks again for sharing your experience – I am very glad you have found better sleep using 5-HTP. This can be fine if used only sporadically, but if long term relief is needed, the research suggests that using a more balanced approach will provide lasting benefits for most people. If you’d like more information or to get started using this approach, don’t hesitate to contact me.

Sincerely,

Dr. Chad

The discoveries that science and medicine are uncovering is truly astounding. I read several medical and nutrition-related journals each week and one thing is for certain – there will be no shortage of ground-breaking discoveries anytime soon. A case in point – it wasn’t until the last few years that we realized that amino acid therapy was so beneficial for resolving trichotillomania; it wasn’t because we targeted trich. It was because clients that were on amino acid therapy for other conditions, such as depression, anxiety, OCD, ADD/ADHD, migraines or insomnia, started telling us they also no longer had any urges to pull. That’s when we started digging and discovered that for many people, neurotransmitter imbalance is at the core of their urge to pull and when we correct that underlying imbalance, the urge goes away.

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Dr. Chad

It is simple, and simple works most of the time if and when it addresses an underlying root imbalance. Amino acid therapy does that: by giving your body the nutrients it needs to properly balance your neurotransmitters, the body naturally restores optimal function. The simplicity is part of what makes this therapy so effective – it gives the body exactly what it needs, and nothing that it doesn’t need.

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Dr. Chad