Biologically, cheese. It slows down your intestines. Just follow your stomach, then.
Valerian root. It’s GABA active. Smells like either manure or freshly rained on soil though depending on your nose in a similar way to how cilantro taste varies between people. It’s what’s in sleepytime extra.
For me, it is Arrabiata pasta from one cafe I visit. It gets me sleepy every time.
Spicy tomato sauce puts you to sleep? That’s new.
It isn’t just tomato sauce
Guinness
Lettuce!
The devil’s lettuce maybe
Any carbs for lunch followed by a work meeting I don’t care about.
Also it’s an autumn day and the office heating is just a little hot and stuffy
You’re eating the wrong carbs.
Or too much carbs.
Does beer count as food? Carbs + alcohol = one way ticket to sleepy town.
There’s a pork chop in every beer.
Specifically the hops used to flavour beer are a potent herbal sleep aid.
Yum vodka mashed potatoes.
Potatoes with a fermented potato sauce
Tatchos. You can’t tell me anyone’s ever scarfed a platter of tatchos and then been like, “let’s do something physical”
Potat nachos?
Precisely
Carbs.
Simple carbs. Complex carbs give you energy.
Turkey
That’s actually a myth.
Tryptophan is a myth? Wild, seems it’s about getting too full.
Not exactly. Like every good urban legend, there’s an element of truth to give it legs.
Tryptophan does metabolize into serotonin, some of which further metabolizes into melatonin, which can make you sleepy. But there isn’t more tryptophan in turkey than there is in other meats and some vegetables. It is an essential amino acid that you get from pretty much every meal that contains protein. Also, an overabundance of tryptophan doesn’t necessarily mean more seratonin or melatonin.
People get sleepy after eating a lot of turkey because their bellies are full of turkey (and probably stuffing and corn bread and mashed potatoes and gravy and pie and a few glasses of wine)
Agreed. The Mythbusters concluded that it’s the amount of food eaten that makes a person sleepy.
Carbs. my go to is a large tray or two of battered chips I always feel woozy after eating them but it’s worth it lol
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