What is the chemical in Turkey/Chicken that...

[bleeb]

makes you sleepy???

 

Tryptophan - haven't you ever seen that Seinfeld episode?

 

[Tetsuo]

I thought you were going to ask which chemical makes you fart

 

[minendo]

Tryptophan

 

[bleeb]

Tryptophan is an amino acid??? that makes up the stuctures of the muscles.. what is the chemical formula and what is the symbol??

 

[minendo]

Originally posted by: bleeb
Tryptophan is an amino acid??? that makes up the stuctures of the muscles.. what is the chemical formula and what is the symbol??

http://www.chemie.fu-berlin.de/chemistry/bio/aminoacid/trp_en.html

 

[Anubis]

Originally posted by: jumpr
Tryptophan - haven't you ever seen that Seinfeld episode?

thats a good episode

 

[FoBoT]

trip to alaska

 

[JHoNNy1OoO]

trip to carribean?

 

[0roo0roo]

the one where they play with a womans toys after she falls asleep?

 

[Sukhoi]

Originally posted by: 0roo0roo
the one where they play with a womans toys after she falls asleep?

Oh yeah.

What did Jerry or George really like? It was some mini pizza oven or something like that.

 

[0roo0roo]

i thought elain liked the pizza oven, i forget, i gotta see that eps again

 

[Eli]

C11H12N2O2..

Interesting.

That's kinda like MDMA - C11H15NO2.

Or Mescaline - C11H17NO3..

Well.. maybe not, but..

 

[clamum]

L-tryptopahn would only make you sleepy if you took it on an empty stomach with no protein present.

 

[Beller0ph1]

Isn't that the AA that Dark Angel was deficient in? She needed to take those pills to stop from dying? Wouldn't she be sleepy from a shot of those?

 

[torkd]

the chemical in turkey is the amino acid tryptophan
i think i read long ago that the chemical in chicken is codeine (very trace amounts)

 

[tweakmm]

Originally posted by: torkd
i think i read long ago that the chemical in chicken is codeine (very trace amounts)

Talk about a hell of a cold water extraction.

 

[AvesPKS]

Originally posted by: 0roo0roo
i thought elain liked the pizza oven, i forget, i gotta see that eps again

Yep, Elaine liked the Easy Bake Oven, and Jerry liked the Scuba GI Joe...I can't remember what George wanted, though...

 

[Nocturnal]

Originally posted by: Eli
C11H12N2O2..

Interesting.

That's kinda like MDMA - C11H15NO2.

Or Mescaline - C11H17NO3..

Well.. maybe not, but..

It's nothing like MDMA. You're probably thinking it's similar because Tryptophan is the pre-cursor to serotonin.