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Hi, Chris.

How are you doing?

Very nice to meet you.

Nice to meet you as well.

I have enjoyed your content online for a few years now, so it's really solid stuff.

And I thought, what better day than to bring Chris in there right after everybody fucked up their diet. Yeah, that's right.

Well, I just want to tell a public health message that you did not get sleepy because the turkey

was high in triptophan.

Yeah, that's weird. Isn't that a weird one?

That's a weird myth that's persisted for a long time.

I mean, the weirdest thing is the origins of it.

Apparently, it came from researchers in the, I'm sorry, not researchers, journalists in the 80s

who were trying to come up with a reason to explain why everyone was tired after Thanksgiving meal. And they just

looked as far as, oh, turkey has triptophan, which is an amino acid that is the precursor

of melatonin, which is, you know, you could call it a sleeping chemical. So it makes you get

tired at night. That must be why. But it turns out that A, turkey's not that

high in triptophan, like even weight protein is higher in triptophan than turkey is. And then B,

triptophan doesn't make you tired. Yeah, I dare anyone to go out and have like a, just a slice

of turkey for breakfast and see if it knocks you out.

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