I have read some debates on the internet about the pros and cons of a turkey based diet: tryptophan being bad, tryptophan being good.
I have looked into some sources for the discussions and have come with some.
The reason I am asking is the The Honest Kitchen foods I use that Hambone will eat are turkey based. Anectdotally, he is calmer and leaner, but I do want to be sure I am not doing him harm.
Has anyone on this board done any research into this area? Any journals you can point me to ease my mind?
I don't know of anything horrible longterm regarding Tryptophan, esp. the amounts ingested by eating turkey. Drugging w/high doses daily might be different.
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I have read some debates on the internet about the pros and cons of a turkey based diet: tryptophan being bad, tryptophan being good.
I have looked into some sources for the discussions and have come with some.
The reason I am asking is the The Honest Kitchen foods I use that Hambone will eat are turkey based. Anectdotally, he is calmer and leaner, but I do want to be sure I am not doing him harm.
Has anyone on this board done any research into this area? Any journals you can point me to ease my mind?
I've seen connex made between tumors and faulty metabolism of tryptophan (which can be from either endocrine problems or from long-term or high-level ingestion of supplemental tryptophan), but I have never seen anything connecting tryptophan food sources and cancer.
Turkey isn't even the highest-level, I don't think. I think it's white-meat chicken. And maybe tuna is second, and I think tofu is higher than turkey. Not sure about the order. But the old turkey-tryptophan nap thing is probably due more to the Thanksgiving overeating than to any real tryptophan super-content.
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