The Tryptophan effect

Everyone has heard about it and many have experienced its effects. But just what is it? Here is the online dictionary entry...

a crystalline essential amino acid C11H12N2O2 that is widely distributed in proteins It is the stuff in turkey that makes you sleepy. Here it is finally raining in the PNW and everyone is sleeping...even the little kids. Wake up and smell the coffee...that I am drinking, folks! The afternoon and early evening at NaNee's was a traditional Thanksgiving. Too much food and lots of love. Linda (NaNee)'s mother, Grandma Hazel from California was there. She will be 90 in February and is quite spry. She rode up to Eugene with a friend and the family picked her up there. So it was great They just have to get up, now...it is eight in the morning...eleven where I come from. Oh...yea...I hear Asher cooing. That will get things going. I would get him but he might be wet or something...just kidding. He is mine if he still fusses. See ya.