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Turning to turkey's tryptophan to boost mood? Not so fast

  • Written by Andrew Neff, Adjunct Faculty in Psychology, Rochester University
Those smiles probably aren’t thanks to tryptophan.Monkey Business Images/Shutterstock.com

Every Thanksgiving, myths of the quasi-magical powers of tryptophan rise again.

There’s the turkey/drowsiness myth: Eating lots of juicy turkey meat supposedly makes people feel tired because it contains an amino acid called tryptophan. This...

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