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Re: [RC] [RC] ultium and ot her high tech feeds - Lynn Kinsky

Title: Re: [RC] [RC]   ultium and ot her high tech feeds
I found the following on the website.  I'm wondering about the ingredients...is L-tryptophan a calming thing?  Is it a "drug"?  Sounds *illegal* to me for some reason.....Anybody know?  Susan, if you're not too busy DVMing, could you take a look?  Thanks!  :)
Sylvia

l-tryptophan is an amino acid and as such is in the category of a nutraceutical.  It used to be in all the equine calming supplements (and in my experience, it was reasonably effective -- better than vitamin B-1) and available for humans too until quality control issues became an issue (http://www.howstuffworks.com/question519.htm). 
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Lynn Kinsky, Santa Ynez, CA
http://www.silcom.com/~lkinsky/
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