Tryptophan is Better than Melatonin for Sleep

Dr. Berg’s Healthy Keto and Intermittent Fasting Podcast

Dr. Eric Berg

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🗓️ 27 September 2021

⏱️ 4 minutes

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Here’s what you need to know about tryptophan vs. melatonin for sleep.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Dr. Berg's Healthy Keto and Interminate Fasting Podcast, where Dr.
0:07.7	Berg takes you on the journey for the truth about getting healthy and losing healthy weight.
0:22.4	Trip to fan versus melatonin for sleep.
0:25.8	What is better?
0:26.8	There's a very large population of people taking melatonin to help them sleep.
0:30.4	I don't recommend it because what happens is you're taking this actual hormone over a period
0:35.8	of time, the receptors in the pineal gland can start to downgrade to the point where you
0:42.6	need more and more of it to create the same effect.
0:44.8	That happens with pretty much all hormones, so I don't recommend taking melatonin to help
0:49.2	you sleep.
0:50.2	I recommend taking the precursor trip to fan.
0:53.8	Now, trip to fan is an amino acid and it turns into 5HTP, 5 hydroxy trip to fan, which
1:02.7	then turns into serotonin, which is a neurotransmitter, it's a hormone like communication in the body.
1:10.6	And serotonin has everything to do with bringing your mood up, happiness, cravings for
1:15.4	carbs, and it can act as an antidepressant.
1:18.2	But serotonin then turns into melatonin, and that is the hormone that induces
1:23.8	sleep.
1:24.8	And what stimulates melatonin is darkness.
1:28.2	So I highly recommend, instead of taking melatonin, take trip to fan.
1:32.6	Now trip to fan is cool because it has virtually no side effects and it can act as an amino
1:38.0	depressant.
1:39.0	And it has anxiolytic properties, that means anti-anxiety properties, as well as helping
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