Nightshade Free Pain Free!

How many times have you heard peo­ple blam­ing the turkey for mak­ing them sleepy after a hardy Thanks­giv­ing meal? If your like me, then it is quite a bit. Well it not their fault, turkey does con­tain tryp­to­phan. Tryp­to­phan has been used for years to calm horses, which started the myth. You see horses are often jumpy around strangers such as a horse­shoer or vet­eri­nar­ian. So they would be given tryp­to­phan to calm them down (the horses I mean). But it only works on horses who are defi­cient in tryp­to­phan from being grain fed rather than pas­ture fed.

Humans you ask?

Tryp­to­phan gen­er­ally does not effect humans because the con­sume plenty of tryp­to­phan in their daily diet.  Egg whites have nearly twice the tryp­to­phan as turkey.  In fact pork chops, sun­flow­ers seeds, ched­dar and Parme­san cheese,  and cod all have higher lev­els of tryp­to­phan than turkey.

So why do get sleepy?

Solaine and atropine in pota­toes.  Solaine is a neu­ro­toxin that is found in small amounts in night­shade plants such as pota­toes.  The neu­ro­toxin in solaine effects the neu­ro­trans­mit­ters in the brain, it pre­vent­ing con­nec­tions from being made between neu­rons.  This leads to decreased men­tal func­tion, which makes you think you are tired and in a need of a nap or gives you a nasty migraine by the next day.  Atropine depresses the parasym­pa­thetic ner­vous sys­tem, which causes you to be sleepy.  The amount of each are quite small so the effects are lim­ited and only led to a nice nap.

The sec­ond fac­tor is that if you are like me on Thanksgiving–you ate too much. That draws lots of blood from the body to diges­tive sys­tem, adding to the will­ing­ness to take a nap.

Now, this all seems quite harm­less, and a good nap dur­ing the foot­ball isn’t such a bad thing.  How­ever, in my book Night­shade Free, Pain Free! I detail the long-​​term effects of the neu­ro­tox­ins in night­shades plants and how the destroy your health over time.  While the nap is harm­less, solaine has 100% bond­ing with brain tis­sue, in time this will led to prob­lems in your thinking.

Now you can tell your friends:  The Potato did it.

Here’s the good news:  Sweet pota­toes and yams are the best food you can eat and they do not make you sleepy–so you can watch the game.

Happy Thanks­giv­ing!

Michael Fowler