Meeker Locals: November 27, 2008

Are you sleepy? Don’t blame it on the turkey.Apparently the amount of the amino acid L-tryptophan in a serving of turkey is not enough to send us off to the land of Nod. The real cause of your post-Thanksgiving dinner drowsiness may be a combination of booze and a whopping dose of carbohydrates that send the body into metabolic overload. In other words, you’ve just eaten so much your body doesn’t have enough energy…