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What Should Breakfast Look Like?

Brain Food: Nutrition for Mental Performance

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High Protein Meals Cause a Lower Triptophan Ratio

Hi card meals will increase the triptophan ratio in your body. The reason for that is because carbs cause a spike and insolen flushes out ameno acids, which tells them to go into the muscles. A high protein meal on the other hand, causes a lower tripto fan ratio. And then all that Triptophan goes into your brain, and it makes you drowsy.

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