{"id":202,"date":"2009-02-22T10:25:00","date_gmt":"2009-02-22T17:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/glossary.ultimatefatburner.com\/5htp-5hydroxytryptophan.php"},"modified":"2015-02-23T13:45:04","modified_gmt":"2015-02-23T18:45:04","slug":"5htp-5hydroxytryptophan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/glossary\/5htp-5hydroxytryptophan\/","title":{"rendered":"5-HTP (5-Hydroxytryptophan)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A metabolite of the essential amino acid <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/glossary\/ltryptophan\/\" target=\"_blank\">l-tryptophan<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nature.com\/nrd\/journal\/v1\/n8\/images\/nrd870-f1.gif\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">intermediate<\/a> in the production of the neurotransmitter serotonin (5-hydroxytryptamine or 5-HT) as well as\u00a0the hormone <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/glossary\/melatonin\/\" target=\"_blank\">melatonin<\/a>.\u00a05-HTP is used as an alternative treatment for depression, and included in a number of supplements to improve mood and <a href=\"http:\/\/ajcn.nutrition.org\/content\/56\/5\/863.full.pdf+html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">assist with appetite control\/weight loss<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>See Andrew Novick&#8217;s and David Tolson&#8217;s article, &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.1fast400.com\/?ingredients_id=60\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">5-HTP<\/a>&#8221; for more information.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A metabolite of the essential amino acid l-tryptophan and intermediate in the production of the neurotransmitter serotonin (5-hydroxytryptamine or 5-HT) as well as\u00a0the hormone melatonin.\u00a05-HTP is used as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[47,48,99,127,341,648,868,906,982],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=202"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1929,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202\/revisions\/1929"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}