Tryptophan in Turkey = BS

[thebitterguy]

Read somewhere a while back that the actual tryptophan levels in your turkey dinner is actually really, really low. Any grogginess you may experience after eating your harvest meal (and did you SEE that moon out there? Gorgeous!) is due to the fact you just ate a GIANT MEAL!

This is good, as otherwise the amount of poulty that will have entered my system by the end of the two day period ending Saturday would be considered a suicide attempt.

Comments

[absinthe-dot-ca.livejournal.com]

Apparently a lot of it is due to the quantity of starchy food (potato, stuffing, etc) - all the blood rushes to the stomach to handle the food, and thus leaves the brain low on the red juice, leading to sleepiness. Or something like that.

Hope your Thanksgiving is good - I'm stuck in Singapore, where they think a turkey is a country somewhere near Greece...

[thebitterguy]

Thank you very much. Will you be back in country by Dec 10?

[absinthe-dot-ca.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I should be back in-country by the end of November, and by the 10th I might even be feeling human again.

[innocent-man.livejournal.com]

Indeed (http://www.snopes.com/food/ingredient/turkey.asp), you are correct, sir.

[thebitterguy]

Woo!

And a happy Columbus Day to you.

[pyat.livejournal.com]

Hee hee. :)

[bandersnitch.livejournal.com]

Interesting.

Though I dont get drowsy after a trip to the Mandarin.

[thebitterguy]

Last time my wife & I went, with some costumer friends of ours, I tried to 'pace myself' to get 'maximum enjoyment' and 'nearly died' (or at least found myself sweatin' & squattin').

Fun!