Tired from Tryptophan
Posted by Michael Bradbury in Food and Nutrition, Health and Medicine, SciClips, The Brain on 11 27th, 2009 | no responses
Did you fall into a turkey coma? Well, if you did don’t blame it on the much-maligned tryptophan. It was more likely something else, like all the starch in stuffing or sugars in candied yams that made you need a nap.
New research is finding that carbohydrate-rich meals help tryptophan cross the blood-brain barrier more easily but turkey isn’t the only food containing that amino acid.
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