Does 1% milk less able to make me sleepy than a 3% milk?!
Does 1% milk less able to make me sleepy than a 3% milk?
i heard about trytophan in milk that stimulates serotonin...in turn maming a person sleepy... does lower percent milk less sleep-inducing than higher percent?
Answers:
No. Tryptophan is an animo acid, meaning that it is a protein, not a fat. Reduced fat milk still has the same amount of tryptophan.
As a drinker of fat-free milk, I can vouch for this personally. ^^
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"For some time, tryptophan was available in health food stores as a dietary supplement. Since 2002, L-Tryptophan has been sold again in its original form. Many people found tryptophan to be a safe and reasonably effective sleep aid, probably due to its ability to increase brain levels of serotonin (a calming neurotransmitter when present in moderate levels) and/or melatonin (a sleep-inducing hormone secreted by the pineal gland in response to darkness or low light levels).
Clinical research tended to confirm tryptophan's effectiveness as a natural sleep aid and for a growing variety of other conditions typically associated with low serotonin levels or activity in the brain. (Particularly work by Dr. Richard Wurtman at MIT). In particular, tryptophan showed considerable promise as an antidepressant alone, and as an "augmenter" of antidepressant drugs. Other promising indications included relief of chronic pain and reduction of impulsive, violent, manic, addictive, anxiety-related, obsessive, and compulsive behaviours and disorders."