{"id":226161,"date":"2025-11-29T21:08:25","date_gmt":"2025-11-30T03:08:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/11\/scientists-found-tryptophan-the-sleepy-amino-acid-in-an-asteroid-heres-what-it-means"},"modified":"2025-11-29T21:08:25","modified_gmt":"2025-11-30T03:08:25","slug":"scientists-found-tryptophan-the-sleepy-amino-acid-in-an-asteroid-heres-what-it-means","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/11\/scientists-found-tryptophan-the-sleepy-amino-acid-in-an-asteroid-heres-what-it-means","title":{"rendered":"Scientists found tryptophan, the \u2018sleepy\u2019 amino acid, in an asteroid. Here\u2019s what it means"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-found-tryptophan-the-sleepy-amino-acid-in-an-asteroid-heres-what-it-means2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>An essential amino acid that is mistakenly believed to cause drowsiness after eating turkey has been found in an asteroid for the first time, giving scientists clues to the origin of life on Earth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An essential amino acid that is mistakenly believed to cause drowsiness after eating turkey has been found in an asteroid for the first time, giving scientists clues to the origin of life on Earth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1506,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-226161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226161","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=226161"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226161\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=226161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=226161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=226161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}