Happy Thanksgiving!

[Franky]

Just want to wish a very sincere happy thanksgiving to all the members here who celebrate the holiday. May you have a safe and tasty holiday.

[gumball]

hi franky
i hope you have a nice thanksgiving holiday also. try not to stuff yourself to much,which is so easy to do this time of year. ( enjoy) gumball

[Franky]

Dam turkey it makes me so daM SLEEPY! Anybody else get the sleepeies after turkey? ???

[ladycolorado]

I think a drug in turkey actually makes you sleepy. I need to eat it every day (LC).

[Franky]

Turkey does have the makings of a natural sedative in it, an amino acid called tryptophan. Tryptophan is an essential amino acid, meaning that the body can't manufacture it. The body has to get tryptophan and other essential amino acids from food. Tryptophan helps the body produce the B-vitamin niacin, which, in turn, helps the body produce serotonin, a remarkable chemical that acts as a calming agent in the brain and plays a key role in sleep.

*Lots of people use totake tryptophan for its calming effects years ago, until it was banned in the US.

[lacey]

Franky,
That is amazing, anything that gets the serotonin levels up must be good. I hope there is plenty left over and that everyone had a great thanksgiving.
hannah

[ladycolorado]

well getting a little sidetracked here but here is why L-Tryptophan , the sleepy drug in turkey was outlawed : not because it in itself was dangerous, but one compny had unsafe impurites in the product that caused disease and deth: Here is an excerpt that I read: Disaster Strikes
In 1989, an outbreak of eosinophilia-myalgia syndrome (EMS) occurred among L-tryptophan users [2]. A hitherto rare disorder, EMS is a debilitating disease characterized by severe muscle and joint pain, weakness, swelling of the arms and legs, fever, skin rash, and an increase of eosinophils (certain white blood cells) in the blood. Over the next year, more than 1,500 cases and twenty-eight deaths were reported to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention [3]. The actual toll probably was more than 5,000 people, many of whom suffered for years and are still disabled. Soke of the victims were children. When the link between EMS and L-tryptophan became apparent, the FDA quickly banned its sale [4,5].

The EMS outbreak was traced to the presence of an impurities in the L-tryptophan produced by Showa Denko K.K., a Japanese wholesaler that was the major supplier to American manufacturers [6-8]. Showa Denko realized that it would not only be liable for damages to L-tryptophan victims but would probably be forced to reimburse American manufacturers for the costs of legal actions against them. Rather than working at cross-purposes with the manufacturers, Showa Denko agreed to shoulder all the expenses involved.

Minneapolis attorney Roger P. Brosnahan, who chaired the steering committee for all plaintiffs who brought cases in federal court, estimates that about 2,000 L-tryptophan victims (or their survivors) filed lawsuits or entered negotiations without suing. Most cases have generated little publicity because they were settled out of court with an agreement not to disclose the settlement terms. Even though the total amount paid by Showa Denko approximated one billion dollars, the general news media have not considered the outcome of the lawsuits newsworthy
SO, impurites NOT the pure product led to its downfall apparently. What a shame. also the natural industry has disclaimers on its products now which it did not back then. (LC).