Such_Saturation
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You asked why Ray Peat says bananas have serotonin. It's because bananas have serotonin. Not tryptophan, bodybuilders go after tryptophan. The serotonin might be little or much, it may or may not reach your intestine, but you don't know what concentrations it could reach in your lining once it gets there.
The present study was initiated following
a personal communication from
J. A. Anderson (1) that ingestion of
bananas produces an increased urinary
excretion of the serotonin (5-hydroxytryptamine)
metabolite, 5-hydroxyin-
doleacetic acid. This observation was
reported recently- by Anderson, Ziegler;
and Doeden (2).
As a result
of these findings, we were encouraged
to administer large amounts of serotonin
to patients. It was found that at least
20 mg of serotonin can be taken orally
without any apparent physiologic effect.