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.
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.
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.
On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 4:37 AM, tamaratornado <tamaratornado@yahoo.com> wrote:
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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