Fast-5 Diet and Lifestyle: [fast5] Re: Sleepy after eating

Friday, July 23, 2010

[fast5] Re: Sleepy after eating

Tumeric and fish sound good. I can get fresh tumeric here sometimes. It's a relative of ginger root, it's wonderful.

Taking a nap is usually a bad idea, it means I won't sleep at night. I do much better sleeping at night and being awake during the day. Taking a nap and being awake at night, usually I can't concentrate, I feel weird. But maybe it's just in my head, I know plenty of artists who love to work at night.

--- In fast5@yahoogroups.com, Heather Twist <HeatherTwist@...> wrote:
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> Starches cause serotonin to be created, which makes people relaxed and
> sleepy. Fish does the opposite: the proteins in fish make you alert. So does
> turmeric.
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> However, most animals tend to sleep after meals. Watch a lion after a kill,
> or a snake (the snakes just stop moving for a week!). My goats don't sleep
> after eating, but they just sit and chew cud for hours.
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> Digestion takes a lot of work, so it makes sense to me that people would
> feel sleepy after a meal. I've gotten in the habit of taking a small nap
> after eating ... it makes the rest of the evening go nicely.
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> On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 4:37 AM, tamaratornado <tamaratornado@...>wrote:
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> > I sometimes feel sleepy after eating. I thought it meant that I was
> > hypoglycemic. I notice though that I get sleepy after eating a no carb meal
> > of meat and veggies, which doesn't make sense that way.
> >
> > I am thinking to push my eating window back to just before bedtime. I ate
> > at 5 pm yesterday and was sleepy til about 9:30 or 10, then I started to
> > wake up. Maybe I should eat around 9 pm, I would get sleepy for my bedtime,
> > that would be nice.
> >
> > One of my friends noticed he was sleepy after eating meat, and he went
> > vegetarian because of it. I didn't agree with going vegetarian, but I don't
> > have a solution for him either.
> >
> > - T
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