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Lara's avatar

Fascinating! Thanks for sharing this research.

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Sarah Christensen's avatar

Do you have any gut feeling about whether the metabolite anthranilic acid is low in food addicted patients due to a reduced ability to make the conversion from the amino acid or is it more likely to be due to a reduced intake of the amino acids more generally? Does that make sense?

My husband heard me listening to the article, and it makes him want to just start taking tyrosine and tryptophan and what I’m trying to understand is if there’s anything that makes you suspect that would, or wouldn’t be potentially beneficial. Like, what good is taking extra if you can’t make the conversion to the protective compound? I’m totally for it if it’s a simple matter of not getting enough of those amino acids but I don’t want to just throw money down the toilet on supplements if he can’t even make the conversion adequately, you know? Maybe some other gut rehab stuff is in order first.

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