Why Your Thanksgiving Dinner Makes You so Sleepy

Every Thanksgiving, we gobble down as much turkey, gravy, stuffing, and pumpkin pie as we can fit in our stomachs. Then, we settle on the couch to watch Thanksgiving football, and we get sleepy. I mean really sleepy. Have you ever wondered why you get so sleepy? Some people say it's because turkey contains tryptophan, but that's simply a myth. Here's the real reason you get so sleepy after Thanksgiving dinner. It's a little confusing, but bear with me!

Step 1: When you eat all that turkey, a lot of glucose gets into your bloodstream. So, your body produces insulin to absorb the glucose. Note: Diabetes is when your body can't produce enough insulin to absorb all the glucose in your bloodstream.

Step 2: The insulin also affects the uptake of every amino acid in your body, except for tryptophan. So, the concentration of tryptophan in your blood increases.

Step 3: When all the tryptophan in your blood gets to your brain, it is converted into serotonin and melatonin, both of which cause sleepiness. Voila! 

Watch Thanksgiving Football Online!

It happens to all of us. It's Thanksgiving, and we really want to watch the Super Bowl, but for some reason we can't watch it on our TV. Either you don't own a TV, or it's broken, being used, or unusable in any other way.

So, the obvious solution is to watch the game online. Here's the best place to watch Thanksgiving football online:

http://www.nfl.com/tnf?icampaign=NFL_com_Live

See, the reason I found this important enough to make a post about is that it's really not a good idea to Google "Watch football online." Why not? You'll run into many sites that either trick you into paying them or put viruses on your computer. In fact, while making this post, I almost used TelevisionFanatic as my link above, until I found that it would put on virus on the computers of people who installed it.

Note: If you go on the link above before 8 pm, you will not be able to start watching. You will see a "Coverage Starts at 8pm E.T. on NFL.com". If you go on the link after 8pm, you will be able to click a link under the "NFL.com live presented by GMC."