LSD and 5-htp

[PokeballDropper24]

ive been reading up on LSD and am wondering since it does act on the serotonin in your brain (maybe not releasing it, but acting with it) should a user take 5-htp following the trip?

also it 5-htp states users should not take this if under the age of 18, im 17 and will be 18 in December. I was wanting to know if this may cause any harm to me? i was using MDMA frequently but am on a 3 month break right now.

thanx in advance guys.

 

[paridiso]

No need to. LSD doesn't lower serotonin levels.

I doubt 5-htp will be harmful, unless you're taking really high doses. It's an amino acid that your body naturally produces.

 

[DwayneHoover]

It doesn't interact with the chemical substance serotonin, or its amount present, release or re-uptake.

It affects the serotonin receptors that exist in the nerve synapses, where the feathery nerve endings (the "feelers" of the long extended nerve "branches") meet up with and interact with the nerve-endings of other nerve cells or the next segment in a very long multi-segment nerve fiber... the things that DETECT serotonin as a signal to their parent nerve cell to fire a pulse of electric current and send a signal too other nerve cells, or that can also amplify, attenuate, block or trigger transmission along an axon (extended nerve fiber), It seems however to affect them only inside certain regions of the brain, and even then only under certain operational conditions. And it does something similalr with respect to other classes of receptors. Basically it masquerades as Serotonin or whatever... tickling just the right spots on the receptors to trick them into thinking they have detected some serotonin floating in the synapse (the "gap where nerve endings meet up). It gets wildly complicated, and even if they could tell PRECISELY what exactly LSD was doing physically in all those multiple places, they would still have absolutely NO idea whatsoever HOW those effects on receptors cause any of the psychedelic effects.