Every year, we sit down to the Thanksgiving table with the same idea; “I’m going to eat as much turkey as I want, but its okay because the L-Tryptophan will help me fall asleep later.” So we set out on our fateful mission, filling our mouths with mashed potatoes, slices of turkey, and green beans, chasing all of it down with a Stein full of gravy. After a valiant effort to eat an amount of food akin to a typical meal for a family of five, you find the nearest cushioned seat or mattress and pass out from your “food coma.” But, is there a real science to the sleepiness we feel from ingesting turkey, and if so, is tryptophan the culprit.
According to WebMD, the internet’s most trusted source on medicine and human health, turkey contains no more tryptophan than any other kind of poultry. According to Dr. Dawn Blattner, turkey has less tryptophan than chicken.
Tired yet, well, here’s a special edition of what you missed in the news yesterday, so you have something to read as you fall asleep.
Well, If That’s How You Really Feel
President Donald Trump announced that the US will stand with Saudi Arabia, despite the fact that the CIA discovered Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman ordered the assassination of journalist Jamal Khashoggi. Briefly refreshing your memory, Khashoggi was murdered in the Saudi consulate in Istanbul last month by a 16-person Saudi hit squad. Oh, also his body was totally dismembered.
No matter the news, President Trump stressed that the US/Saudi Relationship is crucial for keeping the world’s price of crude down.
“It’s all about, for me, very simple. It’s America first. I’m not going to destroy the world economy and I’m not going to destroy the economy for our country by being foolish with Saudi Arabia.”
–President Donald Trump
Justice Roberts & The Supremes
I know the last piece was about President Trump but, to be fair, his actions typically dominate headlines.
The president was especially critical of the US federal judges on Wednesday:
“It’s a disgrace when every case gets filed in the 9th circuit. That’s not the law. Every case in the 9th circuit we get beaten and then we end up having to go to the Supreme Court like the travel ban and we won. Every case, no matter where it is, they file is practically, for all intents and purposes, they file it in what’s caked the 9th circuit. This was an Obama judge. I’ll tell you what, it’s not going to happen like this anymore.”
–President Donald Trump
Trump was, of course, responding to the fact that the 9th US Circuit Court of Appeals issued a temporary restraining order on the president’s asylum ban in relation to the thousands of Honduran migrants headed for the US/Mexico border. Because of the separation of powers, the 9th circuit court stepped in to stop President Trump from acting without the consent of Congress and the president did not take too kindly to this obstruction.
Well, Chief Justice John G. Roberts clapped back at President Trump for his comments:
“I will not cities the political branches. We do that often enough in our opinions. But what I would like to do, briefly, is emphasize how the judicial branch is — how it must be — very different.”
-Chief Justice John Roberts
