Assertion: tryptophan | /r/CapableOf | meddle with basic energy production
Facets:
value: in cells
type: LOCATION
Source sentences:
text: Since tryptophan, serotonin, and melatonin meddle with basic energy production in cells, and since metabolic efficiency and functionality decreases proportionally with aging (Fannin, et al., 1999; O'Toole, et al., 2010) due to various factors, it seems coherent in biological terms that these substances are less prevalent, thus less “essential” or needed, in older people, as a further decrease of an already suboptimal general metabolic working order will aggravate physiological function systematically, increase the risk for disease (as exemplified and foreshadowed with tryptophan side effects), promote the aging process, and explains the increased mortality related to the administration of these substances.