Does
turkey make you sleepy?
You may have heard the old words around the Thanksgiving table that the tryptophan in
turkey makes you sleepy?
Not exact matches
Usually we talk about
turkey when we think of tryptophan, which can
make you feel
sleepy.
No, says Google: A search for «Thanksgiving science» yields only articles about whether
turkey really
makes you
sleepy.
You've surely heard that
turkey contains compounds that
make you
sleepy, but that's not all that's going on (and that's not entirely true, either).
Even though
turkey has a reputation for
making you
sleepy because it contains tryptophan, a small amount may give your body the fuel «boost» you need to get through a long afternoon.
-RRB-, which is the same amino acid in
turkey that
makes you feel
sleepy and relaxed.