With brands now infusing their wares with everything from passionflower to hibiscus to deliver a sense of calm and wellbeing, the time is ripe to take 5-HTP - a mood support ingredient historically ...

Long COVID appears to trigger a drop in levels of the chemical serotonin, which may explain such symptoms as fatigue, brain fog and memory loss, new research suggests. Photo by Andrea ...

A recent paper in Cell caught my eye for its original research on serotonin reduction in Long COVID. Wong et al wrote: “Several hypotheses have been formulated to explain the etiology of PASC ...

5-hydroxytryptophan (5-HTP) is a naturally occurring amino acid and the essential precursors of serotonin (5-hydroxytryptamine) an important neurotransmitter for mood regulation, memory, learning, and ...

Long COVID has long been a syndrome in search of a disease and, more importantly, an underlying explanation. A new study in Cell tries to use Occam’s Razor to find the underlying cause. While not ...

New research has uncovered evidence that remnants of the COVID-19 virus may remain in some patients' guts for months, contributing to the lingering symptoms known as long COVID. The remnants appear to ...