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L-Tryptophan and healthy nerves As long as we can remember, medical researchers have insisted that when nerve cells die they are not replaced. But today, in laboratories around the world, this belief is being proven wrong, and we find that the brain, like every other organ in the body, can and does grow new cells. Of special importance to researchers is the hippocampus, a region of the brain that is known to control learning and memory. In view of the fact that memory loss with aging is commonplace across all species, researchers at Princeton University have focused on factors that stimulate cell growth in the hippocampus region of the brain. Probably the most promising of these factors is the neurotransmitter, serotonin. Serotonin, of course, is the natural metabolite of L-Tryptophan. Unfortunately, serotonin is likely to fall into short supply when L-Tryptophan is low in the diet, as it frequently is. Supplementation can easily correct this. Although some symptoms of an L-Tryptophan deficiency may disappear quickly, others may take time to show improvement. After all, essential amino acids are involved in a myriad of structural proteins and enzymes, as well as neurotransmitters, and so replacement may take up to sixty days. Lidtke Techonologies Corp

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