Tue, Jul-16-02, 12:18
|
Registered Member
Posts: 51
|
|
Plan: Life Without Bread
Stats: 176/172/172
BF:12%
Progress: 100%
|
|
More on the Wurtman's
Thanks for posting the abstracts on 5-HTP. It may be that, since elevating serotonin levels helps correct obsessive behaviours that this is the reason for its effect on obese people. In other words, anorectics and bulimics are helped because it corrects their obsession with not eating food , and it helps obese people because it helps their obsession with eating food.
Also, the Wurtman's ideas about saturated fats causing depression by decreasing serotonin levels have never been demonstrated or proven. They are also at direct odds with research showing that depression can be helped with vitamin D, which is only found in animal fats which are highly saturated. Also, the healthy primitive peoples that Stefansson and Price studied decades ago were known for their cheery dispositions--on diets rich in animal fats.
|