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Can some food really make you sleepy??

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<span style="letter-spacing: -0.1px;">Roast turkey tends to get most of the blame for causing drowsiness. And anyone who has had their fill at Thanksgiving or Christmas is probably familiar with the sleepy feeling that arrives afterwards. But is it fair to blame the turkey?</span></div>
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The reason it’s a prime candidate for sleepiness is that it contains the substance L-tryptophan. But other foods have more. Sea lion kidney, for example, or if you are looking for something more everyday, egg white, cod or pork chops. I can’t think of a recipe that combines all these ingredients, but even if you were to succeed in finding one, it wouldn’t necessarily have soporific effects.</div>
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The idea that some meals make you drowsier than others may not be entirely true. To understand why, you need to understand how the body and brain absorb nutrients from food.</div>
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L-tryptophan is an essential amino acid. The body can’t produce it and must obtain it from the diet in order to use it as a building block to make serotonin. This is the neurotransmitter we sometime hear associated with happiness, but it also makes fruit flies sleepy and might promote slow-wave sleep in humans.</div>
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This would suggest that taking tryptophan can help you sleep and indeed when it’s taken as a pharmaceutical preparation it can treat insomnia, according to a review of studies conducted before 1986. Fewer such studies have been conducted in the intervening years, but in 2002 one study added some extra support: it showed that decreasing tryptophan levels worsens sleep.</div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: -0.1px;">The substance’s effects in these studies are more complex than first appears, however, because tryptophan from the diet is not the same as from a pharmaceutical preparation: in food, it’s not alone. The protein in a meal also contains large neutral amino acids or LNAAs and these compete with tryptophan to get across the blood-brain barrier. For food containing tryptophan to get the chance to produce serotonin, you not only need to eat it on an empty stomach where it doesn’t compete with the other food you’ve eaten, but you need a food that doesn’t contain other amino acids, which doesn’t happen.</span><span style="letter-spacing: -0.1px;">But there is a trick which could help the tryptophan to get through. In</span><span style="letter-spacing: -0.1px;"> </span>a study conducted with people with insomnia<span style="letter-spacing: -0.1px;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -0.1px;">in Ontario, Canada, volunteers were given food bars containing butternut squash seeds. These are high in tryptophan. When the sugar dextrose was added to the bars, sleep was improved. (Nice detail in this study: by chance, a pair of identical twins both responded to adverts to take part, unaware that their twin was doing the same).</span></div>
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The reason dextrose made a difference is that sweet carbohydrates cause the secretion of insulin which encourages other amino acids to be absorbed in tissues, leaving the tryptophan more likely to succeed in crossing the blood-brain barrier.</div>
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But even if you choose the right combination of foods, it won’t necessarily work for you. The 40 controlled studies of supplements of L-tryptophan conducted before 1982 showed that people did feel  subjectively more sleepy and took less time to fall asleep, but there was less evidence that it could increase the number of hours people slept for, especially if they didn’t suffer from insomnia. And if the insomnia was severe, it had little impact. So it might only work for mild insomnia.</div>
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So is the turkey on Christmas Day or at Thanksgiving making you feel sleepy? Not on its own, but possibly in combination with other foods. However, there could be completely different reasons for feeling tired – getting work finished off before the holidays, cooking for large numbers of people and maybe burning the candle at both ends with parties too. So you might well have started the day already exhausted. Add to that indulging in a huge meal and maybe some alcohol and then, even if L-tryptophan didn’t beat the other amino acids in the race to your brain, no wonder you feel like a little snooze.</div>
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PMQs: Jeremy Corbyn and Theresa May social care 'crisis' clash

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Elderly people are being left isolated because of a "crisis made in Downing Street" over social care funding, Jeremy Corbyn claimed.</div>
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The Labour leader urged Theresa May to replace a corporation tax cut with cash to cover social care costs as they clashed in PMQs.</div>
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It came with councils set to be offered extra tax rises to bring forward planned social care investment.</div>
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Mrs May promised a "long-term, sustainable system".</div>
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She also said Labour had done nothing to tackle the problem during its 13 years in government between 1997 and 2010.</div>
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Campaigners have been calling for investment to tackle what they say is a funding crisis in services for the elderly and disabled.</div>
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The government was criticised after funding for adult social care was not mentioned in last month's Autumn Statement, and local authorities have complained about cuts to the funding they receive from Whitehall.</div>
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<span style="font-size: 1rem;">Just before the start of PMQs in the Commons, it emerged the government would offer councils an increase in the extra council tax they can impose to cover social care costs.</span></div>
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The so-called social care precept, currently capped at 2%, could go up to either either 3% or 4%, over the next two years.</div>
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But the total increase could be no more than 6% in total over three years, so the third year's precept would have to be reduced accordingly.</div>
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A 2% increase raises an estimated £200m.</div>
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'Tinkering around the edges'</h2>
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Make no mistake the government was forced into acting. For months it had been resisting.</div>
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But how generous is the move? Over the next two years it could mean an extra £600m is pumped into the system - not insignificant when you consider the yearly budget for elderly and disabled care is under £20bn.</div>
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The only problem is that council tax only accounts for about half local authority income - the rest mainly comes from central grants, which are being cut, and business rates, which are unpredictable. In short, there can be no guarantee by how much - if at all - care budgets will rise.</div>
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And since the numbers of elderly going without care, paying for it themselves or relying on family and friends currently outstrip those getting council help by four to one this is nothing more than tinkering around the edges.</div>
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Mr Corbyn said a 2% increase was a "nonsense", saying changes to council tax would raise more in wealthy areas.</div>
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He said government funding for social care was cut by £4.6bn in the last Parliament, accusing ministers of a "con" in transferring the burden to local authorities.</div>
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The social care sector is "deep in crisis", he said, adding: "The crisis is made in government, in Downing Street."</div>
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In response, Mrs May said the government was investing in social care through its Better Care Fund, as well as allowing councils to raise extra funds.</div>
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'Exercise boosts men's sperm count'

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Doing at least half an hour of exercise three times a week may boost men's sperm count, say scientists.</div>
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Men who took up running and stuck with it had more "healthy swimmers", according to the research in the journal Reproduction.</div>
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The boost was only temporary, and began to wane within a month if the men stopped their treadmill training.</div>
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Experts say it is important to strike the right balance because too much exercise can harm sperm production.</div>
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Studies have shown that participation in competitive sports, like cycling, can lower sperm quality.</div>
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Sperm boosters</h2>
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Keep your testicles cool - avoid tight underwear and hot baths</div>
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Avoid sexually transmitted infections</div>
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Stop smoking</div>
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Cut down on alcohol</div>
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Stay slim</div>
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Get some exercise, but not too much!</div>
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All of the 261 men enrolled in the recent trial were healthy and did not have any fertility problems as far as they could tell. They had normal sperm counts and healthy-looking sperm and led fairly sedentary lives.</div>
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The men were allocated to one of four programmes:</div>
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Exercise training appeared to boost sperm quantity and quality, with moderate exercise coming top.</div>
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<span style="font-size: 1rem;">Men in all three exercise groups lost weight and saw improvements in their sperm test results compared with the men who did no exercise over the 24-week trial period.</span></div>
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'Exercise boosts men's sperm count'

Doing at least half an hour of exercise three times a week may boost men's sperm count, say scientists. Men who took up running and...

'Gender-biased infections' may exist

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Viruses can evolve to become more aggressive in men than in women - at least in theory, a study suggests.</div>
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The report, published in Nature Communications, argues there is a benefit to a virus "going easy" in women as it helps it spread.</div>
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Some infections are known to be less deadly in women, but this is largely put down to differences in the immune system.</div>
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Experts said the findings were intriguing.</div>
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Viruses have ways of spreading that are unique to women - such as to a child in the womb, during birth or breastfeeding.</div>
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Scientists at Royal Holloway University in London used mathematics to model whether this altered the way viruses behaved.</div>
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Their findings suggest there may be an advantage to infections being less aggressive in women as reducing the risk of killing the mother increases the chance of infecting the child.</div>
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Dr Francisco Ubeda, one of the researchers, said: "Viruses may be evolving to be less dangerous to women, looking to preserve the female population, the virus wants to be passed from mother to child, either through breastfeeding, or just through giving birth."</div>
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Studies have shown that gender plays a role in the types and severity of infections.</div>
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The main ideas are differences in the immune system, hormones or sex chromosomes affecting risk.</div>
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Dr Ubeda told the BBC News website: "We're turning it on its head and taking the pathogen's eye view.</div>
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"We show theoretically it is possible, which is challenging, but we haven't proven what the mechanism is that would trigger this difference.</div>
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"Or that there will be a difference in the pathogen's behaviour between in men and women."</div>
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The researchers argue that eventually it may be possible to use drugs to trick viruses into thinking they were infecting women in order to make them less aggressive.</div>
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But Dr Ubeda agrees this is firmly in the realm of "science fiction" at the moment.</div>
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Prof Jonathan Ball, a virologist from the University of Nottingham, told the BBC: "The possibility that a virus - or indeed any other infection - can fine-tune its ability to cause disease to help its transmission in either males or females is intriguing.</div>
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"Whilst the data is compelling, we have to remember that these are models nonetheless and testing them in real biological systems will be an important next step."</div>
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Viruses can evolve to become more aggressive in men than in women - at least in theory, a study suggests. The report, published in...

HIV vaccine: Clinical trial begins in South Africa

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A new vaccine against HIV, the virus that causes Aids, is being tested in South Africa in what scientists say is the first large study of an HIV vaccine's effectiveness since 2009.</div>
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The study aims to enrol 5,400 sexually active young men and women.</div>
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About seven million people in South Africa are living with the virus, which is one reason why the trial is taking place there.</div>
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Experts hope the vaccine will be "the final nail in the coffin" for HIV.</div>
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The vaccine regime being tested is based on one used in a trial in Thailand in 2009, which had a protection rate of about 30%. Results from South Africa are expected in four years.</div>
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Since the HIV virus was identified in 1983, efforts to develop an effective vaccine have proved unsuccessful.</div>
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Researchers hope that this might come to an end with the current study, which is code-named HVTN 702.</div>
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It is being led by South Africa's Glenda Gray, a university research professor and head of South Africa's Medical Research Council.</div>
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"It will tell us whether the initial success observed [at a smaller scale] will bear fruit in the form of a safe and effective HIV vaccine designed for the people of southern Africa," Dr Gray said.</div>
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According to the United Nations, more than 30 million people have died from Aids since the 1980s.</div>
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Recent breakthroughs in anti-retroviral treatments have improved the lifespan of Aids patients.</div>
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However, the only effective prevention remains abstinence or the use of barrier methods such as condoms during sexual intercourse.</div>
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'Making history'</h2>
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As part of the present trial, study participants will receive a total of five injections over one year, says the US National Institutes of Health (NIH), which is sponsoring the trial.</div>
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Awethu Benenengu, a 20-year-old construction worker, who is one of the participants in the trial, told the BBC's Nomsa Maseko in Johannesburg that he volunteered because he wanted to help defeat Aids.</div>
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"I decided to get involved because I don't like the way my HIV-positive cousin is treated," Mr Benenengu said.</div>
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"There is so much stigma. I want to be part of a generation that changes this and I want my children to be proud one day of their father for getting involved in making history."</div>
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Participants who become infected with HIV during the trial will be referred to local medical providers for care and treatment, NIH adds.</div>
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They will be advised on how to reduce their risk of transmitting the virus.</div>
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Source:<a href="http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-38157123">www.bbc.com</a></div>
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