What is that chemical in turkey that makes you sleepy

What is the chemical in turkey that makes you sleepy?

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Is there a chemical in turkey that makes you sleepy?

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Of corse not there is not anything in turkey that makes you sleepy. All the people that say that the Tryptophan in turkeys makes you sleepy are just bsing you. Dont listen to them there isnt anything in turkeys that makes you sleepy.(mook)

What chemical in turkey makes tired?

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In this instace, lore almost interects with science. Turkey does contain Tryptophan, an amino acid which is a natural sedative. But trytophan doesn’t act on the brian unless it is taken on an empty stomach with no protein present, and the a…

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What ‘chemical’ in turkey makes people sleepy?

Q: I know there’s a chemical or substance in turkey that makes people sleepy, but I don’t know waht it is…I’m asking ’cause everyone in my family yesterday passed out/went to sleep yesterday after eating it XD

A: L. tryptophan and serotonin (some studies say this isn’t true).this is from wikipedia:”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.[47][48][49] While turkey does contain high levels of tryptophan, the amount is comparable to that contained in most other meats.[14] 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[50] and in humans[51][52][53] 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).[54][55] Once inside the CNS, tryptophan is converted into serotonin in the raphe nuclei by the normal enzymatic pathway.[50][52] The resultant serotonin is further metabolised into melatonin by the pineal gland.[9] 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.[50][51][52][53]”

Is it true that there is a chemical in turkey that makes you sleepy?

Q: I am talkin about the turkey naturaly makes it.

A: I had to look back at what the others were saying. I looked everything up in my books again to make sure it was right before I put it down. Tryptophan is not a sleep inducing drug in turkey but a derivative of broccoli and corn that was found by Dr. Ray Sahelian M.D. The chemical 5-Hydroxy-tryptophan s erotonin is actually a sleep enhancement not to make you sleepy. So if you eat enough turkey you should be running around in circles Actually if you eat enough of everything your eating enough carbohydrates and fats, sugars, to induce your body to be working overtime, it’s working more than it has all year. Your bound to be sleepy.

Is it true that there’s some chemical in turkey that makes you sleepy?

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A: Yes, it’s called tryptophan, but you’d have to eat an awful lot of it for it to have an effect. It’s also in milk.