Anyone makin a play on the Turkey day games? Looking at Detroit (cough, cough)...they are usually a cover machine on T-Day at home.
GLTA and don't overdose on the Trytophan!
the trytophan shite is all a myth :toast:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tryptophan
eggs are 4x more concentrated with tryptophan than turkey
guess the man has to blame it on the turkey rather than blaming it on all the mashed potatoes and massive amount of carbs along with all the beer
:nohead:
Turkey meat and drowsiness
One widely-held belief is that heavy consumption of
turkey meat (as for example in a
Thanksgiving or
Christmas feast) results in drowsiness, which has been attributed to high levels of tryptophan contained in turkey.<sup id="cite_ref-Helmenstine_46-0" class="reference">
[47]</sup><sup id="cite_ref-howstuffworks_47-0" class="reference">
[48]</sup><sup id="cite_ref-McCue_48-0" class="reference">
[49]</sup> While turkey does contain high levels of tryptophan, the amount is comparable to that contained in most other meats.<sup id="cite_ref-USDA_13-2" class="reference">
[14]</sup> Furthermore,
postprandial Thanksgiving
sedation may have more to do with what is consumed along with the turkey, in particular
carbohydrates and
alcohol, rather than the turkey itself. This is demonstrated in a popular episode of the sitcom "Seinfeld" when characters of the show drug a woman using turkey and alcohol in order to play with her toy collection.
It has been demonstrated in both animal models<sup id="cite_ref-pmid5120086_49-0" class="reference">
[50]</sup> and in humans<sup id="cite_ref-pmid3279747_50-0" class="reference">
[51]</sup><sup id="cite_ref-pmid12499331_51-0" class="reference">
[52]</sup><sup id="cite_ref-pmid17284739_52-0" class="reference">
[53]</sup> that ingestion of a meal rich in carbohydrates triggers release of insulin. Insulin in turn stimulates the uptake of large neutral branched-chain amino acids (LNAA) but not tryptophan (trp) into muscle, increasing the ratio of trp to LNAA in the blood stream. The resulting increased ratio of tryptophan to large neutral amino acids in the blood reduces competition at the
large neutral amino acid transporter resulting in the uptake of tryptophan across the
blood-brain barrier into the
central nervous system (CNS).<sup id="cite_ref-pmid1148286_53-0" class="reference">
[54]</sup><sup id="cite_ref-pmid6538743_54-0" class="reference">
[55]</sup> Once inside the CNS, tryptophan is converted into
serotonin in the
raphe nuclei by the normal enzymatic pathway.<sup id="cite_ref-pmid5120086_49-1" class="reference">
[50]</sup><sup id="cite_ref-pmid12499331_51-1" class="reference">
[52]</sup> The resultant serotonin is further metabolised into
melatonin by the
pineal gland.<sup id="cite_ref-pmid4391290_8-1" class="reference">
[9]</sup> Hence, these data suggest that "feast-induced drowsiness," and in particular, the common post-Christmas and American post-Thanksgiving dinner drowsiness, may be the result of a heavy meal rich in carbohydrates which, via an indirect mechanism, increases the production of sleep-promoting melatonin in the brain.<sup id="cite_ref-pmid5120086_49-2" class="reference">
[50]</sup><sup id="cite_ref-pmid3279747_50-1" class="reference">
[51]</sup><sup id="cite_ref-pmid12499331_51-2" class="reference">
[52]</sup><sup id="cite_ref-pmid17284739_52-1" class="reference">
[53]</sup>
hno:
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