Non benzo meds for anxiety

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Carog, the jury is still out to some degree on 5htp but they have found troubling evidence. Use duckduckgo or google to find more info. 5htp converts into serotonin which can have good and sometimes bad effects

http://www.bio.net/bionet/mm/neur-sci/19...37051.html

In all cases where valve problems are associated with high blood
serotonins, the daily amounts of serotonin released into the
bloodstream needed to do the nasty dead (judged by urine metabolites)
is about 50 mg a day. Which is about the standard 5-HTP dose. So if
you're taking that, and metabolizing much of it, you can theoretically
be in trouble. No carbadopa is routinely given with the stuff to block
conversion to serotonin in the liver, and B6 is asctually sometimes
given to "help" conversion in the brain (idiotically, since it just
make the problem worse in the liver-- people long ago learned they
can't do that with L-DOPA). Again, as you know, when these amino acid
analoges are decarboxylated in the liver, they are no longer
transportable into the brain by the large aryl amino acid transporter
there. So they are stuck in the system, and your lungs and other
organs have to metabolize them. Meanwhile, they wreck your pulmonary
valve. Steve Harris, M.D.