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.
