So.

Hope you all had a wonderful thanksgiving dinner. By now, perhaps the pumpkin pie has been consumed and everyone is getting a little drowsy after the big meal.

But why?

Well, there are people who claim that consuming lots of turkey, as people are apt to do during thanksgiving, will make people more drowsy. This is due to an amino acid called Tryptophan. Tryptophan is awesome and our bodies need it, but it is a natural sedative.

However, this is probably just a fun idea… In most cases, if you eat a lot of food, you feel drowsy. Especially if you eat a lot of carbs with your meal.

There are a number of different reasons, but part of it is teh amount of blood being diverted to the intestines. This means the blood, and oxygen isn’t going elsewhere….