The Joe Rogan Experience - #2420 - Chris Masterjohn

Chris Masterjohn, PhD, is a leading expert in nutritional science with a background in the biochemistry and molecular biology of nutrition. He is the host of the "Mastering Nutrition" podcast and founder of Mitomewww.chrismasterjohn-phd.comwww.mito.mewww.youtube.com/@chrismasterjohn Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Duration: 2h 32m
Broadcast on: 29 Nov 2025
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Chris Masterjohn, PhD, is a leading expert in nutritional science with a background in the biochemistry and molecular biology of nutrition. He is the host of the "Mastering Nutrition" podcast and founder of Mitome
www.chrismasterjohn-phd.com
www.mito.me
www.youtube.com/@chrismasterjohn

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(dramatic music) - Joe Rogan podcast, check it out. - The Joe Rogan, experience. - Strain by day, Joe Rogan podcast by night, all day. (dramatic music) - Hi Chris, how you doing? - Good, how you doing? - Very nice to meet you. - Nice to meet you, as well. - I have enjoyed your content online for a few years now, so it's really solid stuff, and I thought what better day than to bring Chris in, then right after everybody fucked up their diet. (laughs) - Yeah, that's right. - Well, I just wanna tell public health message that you did not get sleepy because the turkey was high in trip to fan. (laughs) - Yeah, that's a weird one. - Isn't that a weird one? That's a weird myth that's persisted for a long time. - I mean, the weirdest thing is the origins of it. Apparently it came from researchers and not, I'm sorry, not researchers, journalists in the '80s who were trying to come up with a reason to explain why everyone was tired after Thanksgiving meal, and they just looked as far as, oh, turkey has trip to fan, which is an amino acid that is the precursor to melatonin, which is, you know, you could call it a sleeping chemical, so it makes you get tired at night. That must be why. But it turns out that A, turkey's not that high in trip to fan, like even whey protein is higher in trip to fan than turkey is, and then B, trip to fan doesn't make you tired. - Yeah, I dare anyone to go out and have like a, just a slice of turkey for breakfast and see if it knocks you out. It's overeating, it's like so obvious. I mean, people are eating tons of stuffing, tons of sides. They're eating so much food. You're gorging, it's a gorging day. - Yeah, for sure. - Yeah, I mean, it's not good. - And if you look at like a lion in the wild, one thing that you'll notice is that they are on the prowl when they are hungry. They're alert, their bodies revved up, and then they have a feast and they just fall asleep.

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