Turkey Coma
November 24, 2005 5:56 pm
Some people call it the “Turkey Coma.” Allegedly, the presence of a chemical in turkey called tryptophan makes people sleepy after Thanksgiving dinner.
Technically speaking, it’s not the tryptophan that makes you sleepy. Tryptophan helps your body make Vitamin B, which helps your body make serotonin, which… makes you sleepy. But you didn’t really need to know that.
Apparently tryptophan works best on an empty stomach, so most of us are probably not as sleepy right now as we could be.
Read more on Wikipedia or How Stuff Works.
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