BulkSupplements.com L-Tryptophan Powder - Tryptophan Supplement, Amino Acid Supplement - Gluten Free, 500mg per Serving, 100g (3.5 oz) (Pack of 1)

I have received no remuneration of any kind from the seller, or associates. No coupons, or promises of a refund, no free product for a review, or any other type or kind. I have no connection with the company whatsoever except as a purchaser. I am not connected by friendship, marriage or business with the seller or their associates. I paid for this product with my own money and I am giving my honest opinion about the product and the retailer.I like this tryptophan powder, it has nothing at all in it except tryptophan. I have noticed people complaining that it doesn't dissolve in water. Put it in your morning coffee. It doesn't really taste like anything, or smell like anything, the texture is a fine powder like cornstarch, and it will mix in the coffee. It works well to support mood and sleep. Just make sure not to put it in boiling hot coffee/tea/cocoa/juice/whatever because it is a protein, and proteins are destroyed by very high temps. The smallest bag has lasted me oh, I'd say 6 months.Try this BEFORE you go on to Melatonin. I take a dose before bedtime, It takes about a couple of hours to move through your system and do the conversion to melatonin. It makes my sleep so much better. I also take valerian root powder before bedtime, it helps with deeper sleep. If it doesn't work right away don't be impatient, give it at least 30 days, some people take 60 to 90 days to see a difference, it depends on your specific individual chemistry. Some things can take as long as 90 days for you to notice a difference, herbs and proteins and things are not instant fixes. For example St John's Wort usually does take 2 to 3 months to give a noticeable result, so do a lot of other herbs and natural remedies. If it still doesn't work, and the smallest bag should last at least 3 months, then the problem may not be melatonin.It is important to reduce systemic inflammation no matter what you take for sleep. Because systemic inflammation no matter the cause will cause sleep disturbances. Also, you may have sleep apnea and don't even realize it. Get a sleep study done. Or have someone observe you while you sleep, to see if you snore or stop breathing multiple times per night. If you do, go to your doctor.If the bag bothers you, save your glass condiment jars, and remove the labels with goo gone. or something similar; acetone helps, krud kutter does a good job, so does washing soda, vinegar can help too, barkeepers friend, just let them soak for a day or so and let the solutions do the work for you. Wash them well, and dry them well, put a small, wrapped package of rice, use an empty tea bag or something similar, in the bottom of the jar to absorb moisture, or if you have some moisture absorbers that came from supplement containers that are empty, take those and dry them thoroughly in the oven or dehydrator at very very low temperatures, not more than say 90 degrees, and then use those. You don't want extremely high temperatures because the paper will catch fire and the contents can melt. You just want enough heat to dry them out and they can be reused. If you have oxygen absorbers that would be good too. Those unfortunately cannot be reused as far as I know. If you have one of those jar sealers that suck the oxygen out that would be good, or a food sealer with that function. Then use a funnel to fill your jar, it's much less messy than using a spoon because of the fineness of the powder. Then you don't have to worry about the bag, and you don't have to spend money on containers.REMEMBER to label your jar. If you don't have a label maker, no need to buy one. Cut the name off the bag and tape it to your jar, or use you preferred method. Do the same for the instruction and dosage information. You might not want to use a permanent way of sticking on the labels though, because you might want to use your jar for something else later. You can also use empty supplement bottles, just label them and use a funnel to make it it easier to put the powder in. Then take a rubber band and put it on the outside of your container and slide your dosing scoop under the rubber band. Things don't have to be fancy or expensive to work.If you want to make the jars more attractive use some mod podge and a few pieces of decorative tissue paper, material, or a printed picture or patterns that you like, to decorate your jar, or even color code them then stick the labels on. Spray paint is another option.Cling wrap can be used in place of mod podge but you have to use a heat source like a mini heat press to make the cling wrap melt to the jar. Put your cling wrap on the jar, one layer is enough, cut it to the size you need, cut your paper, cloth, whatever material, measure and cut it to the size you need. Put it over the cling wrap, put unwaxed parchment paper over the whole thing and use your mini heat press to go over the whole thing. Go over it until the cling wrap has melted gluing your medium to the jar. Remove your parchment paper paper Walah, you have yourself a decorated storage jar. You can add other touches like buttons, ribbons stickers, etc.I give this Tryptophan 5 stars for; effectiveness, no added ingredients, and value for money.

I had heard about L-Tryptophan being the reason that a person is so relaxed after a big turkey dinner. So, I started to research. Due to some really serious health issues I have no choice or control over getting (diet and lifestyle changes can make a whole life very different. I have to build a life around working to improve what I can, and dealing with what I can't).I'm careful about adding anything over the counter because of other medications, and having to be as certain as is possible to make sure I'm trying to do something positive for my body (mind and soul), that won't rock the boat with the careful balance I work for in other areas.So, I research. Reputable sources, and reading reviews. Controlled studies don't always translate to real life.I've really noticed the last 3 years or so, how I felt kind of fell off a cliff. Not clinical depression, just 'winding down' I realize I'm getting older, but because I'm careful I was having trouble with how small my life was getting.I've always been open to alternative medicine and try to make every effort to gain benefits from nature as well as using every advantage modern medicine can provide. A marriage of sorts. Give and take. Keeping the good and trying to deal with and improve the not so good.I chose this to help me sleep better, and offset some of the bad chain events the body goes through when under constant attack from chronic illness, stress, pain, and unfortunately the prescriptions I have to take.My body wasn't created for the chemicals and substances that go into and around it. Thank God for medical advances but that's only a piece of the puzzle.I'm slowly and carefully analyzing , then adding supplements. They are making such a difference, I feel a little foolish for not adding more than a multivitamin, and occasionally other things.I am moving forward again. I felt stuck, and incredibly frustrated because I felt like that. I wasn't doing myself any favors staying in that repeating pattern.I am sleeping better, which is huge for me. I've always had irregular sleep patterns. I just thought that some people are early to bed, early to rise everyday. Some, like me, help keep the world in a 24/7 cycle because not only did I used to work a lot of 3rd shifts, but a swing shift of 1 day shift, 2 afternoon shifts, and 2 third shifts every week. End at 7am, go on to my days off if I got them, start the next week at 7am. Rinse and repeat. Short days off from working a job with regular hours. Starting and ending at the same time. Not everyone's body can do that kind of schedule. It killed me to fill in for someone and work a straight day shift. I don't sleep like that and never had. Put that pattern together with illness, and it had become like I was living in slow motion, or watching through a window. I no longer work, so I'm fortunate to have some play in the hours available to sleep. If I just could get some good quality sleep. I'd take quality over quantity anytime. I broke down and accepted a short term trial of sleeping pills to try and reset my sleep patterns. Plus, being up for 48 hours, sleeping, then being up again, will make you a little loopy. I didn't drive unless rested. So, in all practicality, I'd stop driving. I live in the country. There are no cabs or public transportation. A few times, I got a ride into town, and stayed at a hotel so I'd make important appointments. Not a financially feasible option long term.So, turns out I'm one of those people that do things they don't remember when on sleeping pills. Thank God I'd already shelved driving. Because the implications of driving with no conscience thought is terrifying. Not the driven this route every day and do it on autopilot type driving. Doing things for hours with not a crumb of memory, and not know I'm doing it. So, sleeping pills. Epic fail.There are only so many things I'm good at. I'm good at research. I live for the little connected threads that not everyone can see. I have the patience to track down those threads like a dog with a bone. I also can recognize when I've hit a dead end, or even need to start over entirely because my gut says I missed something, something isn't adding up, or maybe I started in the wrong place, with the wrong idea, or wrong information. I can sift through, but still keep the discarded information in a filing cabinet in the back of my head to pull out later. I see patterns. Again, I am a good researcher, and I love the chase. I loose that the more overtired I get. Imagine finding out hours of your life are gone, completely wiped clean because of a sleeping pill. To go from being the person people call, to having a void when being told what you did all afternoon yesterday. Had friends for dinner. Hours of food and conversation. Blank. I can keep a secret. I'm very private with both my life and those around me. Apparently I'm approachable. I have no idea why anyone would share deeply personal things with me that they haven't told their spouse or best friend, but 5 minutes after meeting them, I want to put my fingertips in my ears and lalala so can't hear them. What if I revealed a secret and don't remember? Never touch another sleeping pill, but I need sleep.This is helping. It's not a miracle. If it was a pharmaceutical company would grab it and probably either not let it into the world, or add chemicals to it completely negating the natural benefits.So, it's not a miracle but my sleep is more restful, and my sleeping patterns are livable 5 days a week or so. Pairing it with other supplements I expect to even improve. So, while for the other 300 million Americans, it's not a miracle. For me, it's pretty spectacular.I choose Bulk Supplements because they test their products. If it is on the package, that's what is in the package. Research. My obsession. I have tried other companies and keep coming back. I can write that without the shopping around, I wouldn't have known the difference. There are some companies that really thrive on fancy packaging but poor contents. A few I'm pretty sure what was on the label wasn't at all what I actually received. So, with the thought of saving others money, and possibly a poor outcome, I try to get to reviews. I read what others wrote, and it was part of my decision making. So, I'm hoping to return the favor.Because I'm not stuck anymore. Not running in circles, because illnesses have brought my circle running days to a close (yes, I'm one of those obnoxious people who's walked marathons. And half marathons. Walked because running with rheumatoid arthritis, 2 knee surgeries due to car accidents, brain and spinal surgery, among others I've had, make running a memory. Walking 26.2 miles with what my body has gone through, and continues to go through, is pretty great. I'll take my victories where I can get them. And make no mistake, they're huge victories. I had decided to train for a half marathon 3 years ago when my body ground to a halt. I couldn't get over 9 miles, and what really brought my decline home was, my mileage didn't improve, it fell off. Something had either changed, or something new was going on. It's winter in Wisconsin. I am just getting enough energy together to get my house in order again (when did I get so much stuff? I could get rid of 80% of what I own and be happier for it. Seriously). But there's a full and half marathon in September here. If my body doesn't give up on another organ, like it's done in the past, I have an eye toward training for it.Life can change in a second. Profoundly change. It can also be the Grand Canyon. I don't have millions of years, but I'll take what I'm given and try to do it justice. We never get one single second back. Sometimes I've been extravagant with my waste of those seconds without even realizing it. I'd like to think I've gotten older and wiser. That I see the past with 20/20 vision and all that, but honestly it's all crap. If that were true, we'd only make a mistake once. We repeat them again and again. Even while knowing we've developed patterns and put just as much effort into repeating that mistake the 10th time, as we did the first time. Maybe even more. But our spirits are hardwired with hope. So, we try. And try harder. Evil lives on stealing and crushing that hope. Evil is empowered, fueled, and inflated in it's death. But evil will be defeated every single time, we open our eyes to search for the light. Even when it seems that blackness is absolute and unending, we don't need to see the light to triumph. It's in opening our eyes we win. It's that simple. Just opening your eyes defeats the evil, because all of hope was not lost or taken. Even when we didn't feel it. Thought we'd lost it forever. We opened our eyes and evil was defeated.Illness is one evil constantly ripping my hope to shreds. Stealing my light. Though, does evil steal? Or do we hand over our light? Our hope. Ourselves. I freely gave it the last 3 years. I opened my eyes and searched for the light. And the light was there. Always there. It didn't forget me. It waited. It will always wait.My story will continue, and every supplement I add, I will try to share my journey. Not every single one will be the one for me. Our needs are unique to the individual. I can add to the general body of knowledge and hope to help through my efforts.