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Episode 15: Can Turkey Make You Sleepy?
Life Lines - The Podcast of The American Physiological Society
English - October 31, 2008 18:08 - 21 minutes - 19.6 MB - ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsNatural Sciences Science Education Courses physiology aps lifelines life lines american physiological society molecules education Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Why do we feel sleepy after a big Thanksgiving meal? Is there something in the turkey? Are cranberries good for our kidneys? These are some of the questions our experts will explore. Chris I. Cheeseman of the University of Alberta will talk about tryptophan in turkey. (Begins at 3:17.) L. Lee Hamm of Tulane University School of Medicine will discuss what the research shows about cranberries and kidney health. (Begins at 8:58)
Kevin Heffernan (13:26) will talk about his study, aimed at trying to uncover why African-American men have a higher rate of hypertension than white men. The research team from the University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign, found some early signs of vascular damage in young, healthy African-American men and found that measuring central blood pressure may be a better way of identifying those at risk.
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Total time: 21:13