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From: dyer@spdcc.COM (Steve Dyer)
Newsgroups: alt.drugs
Subject: Re: L-tryptophan scare?
Keywords: say what?
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Date: 16 Jan 90 22:30:06 GMT
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Some dietary tryptophan is converted to vitamin B3 (niacin, niacinamide)
in the presence of a B3 deficiency.  That is why pellagra is so rare;
it requires a diet not only deficient in B3, but also poor in protein
quality.

Needless to say, for the average middle-class recreational drug abuser
reading the net, B3 deficiency is not a serious problem.  There's no need
to take excessive doses of niacin on the hope that it will improve one's
l-tryptophan "experience".

-- 
Steve Dyer
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dyer@arktouros.mit.edu, dyer@hstbme.mit.edu