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Turkey isn’t the reason you feel sleepy after dinner

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You are not passing out because of the bird, you are comatose because you ate five pounds of carbohydrates and gravy. Turkey actually has comparable tryptophan levels to most other meats. The Thanksgiving exhaustion is entirely driven by the massive insulin spike from consuming an ungodly amount of pie.

Turkey isn’t the reason you feel sleepy after dinner
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