The purpose of sunlight and darkness is so we can keep our internal time clock in check. It allows us to be awake during daylight hours, and sleep during the dark ones. If you are at all like me, you have a severely messed up inner clock. I am most alert between the hours of 3:30 and 7:30 am. No matter what I do, I can’t change that fact. I have to concentrate extremely hard to get anything accomplished after 10 am. There is nothing I can do about it. I have tried …read more

Happy Thanksgiving!
I realize that for most of the world, it is not Thanksgiving. However in Canada, today is the day to give our thanks. That said this post is not about saying thank you….that will come on a very different day; today it will be about turkey.
Turkeys contain tryptophan which is a precursor to serotonin. This is why we all feel so very sleepy after we eat thanksgiving meals. But did you ever think that there are other reasons why we are so tired after dinner, and we are falling asleep watching the ball game on …read more