Pork, tuna and other foods contain similar — if not higher — levels of tryptophan, the amino acid in turkey often blamed for ...

Tryptophan is needed to make melatonin, which is important for a good night's sleep. It supports healthy sleep-wake cycles and helps maintain normal protein turnover, says Rifkin. Some recent research ...

If you’re feeling tired, irritable, have brain fog or trouble sleeping make sure you’re paying attention to tryptophan. This ...

A critical nutrient used to produce the neurotransmitter serotonin may have turned up in samples collected from asteroid ...

Consider swapping turkey and gravy for Mediterranean mains such as grilled branzino to avoid the immune-triggering effects of tryptophan. It’s hard to be a fan of tryptophan these days. The essential ...

When scientists sifted through dust from asteroid Bennu and spotted tryptophan, the same amino acid often blamed for ...

An essential amino acid that is mistakenly believed to cause drowsiness after eating turkey has been found in an asteroid for ...

'Tis the season for giblets, wattles and snoods—oh my. This year’s pandemic Thanksgiving will be different for many of us, yet we can find comfort in two enduring questions that may never change: How ...

Gut bacteria and a diet rich in the amino acid tryptophan can play a protective role against pathogenic E. coli, which can cause severe stomach upset, cramps, fever, intestinal bleeding and renal ...

Researchers say the latest discovery is particularly significant because tryptophan has never before been detected in ...

Jose Aponte, an astrochemist in the Astrobiology Analytical Laboratory at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center and co-author of ...