especially after taking the lunch we feel sleepy
2006-11-09 15:41:24 · 15 answers · asked by rocker2007 1 in Health ➔ Diet & Fitness
Registered Nurse here; Because it increases your blood sugar level, and some studies indicate that the brain releases increased levels of dopamine, (theory not fact). Plus we have taken a break from our work schedule, get our tummies full, and like a any well feed animal, we are ready for a little snooze. LOL.
Thanks for the opportunity to answer such a delightful question.
Yawn--Just ate.
2006-11-09 15:50:44 · answer #1 · answered by Strawberry Pony 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It's because it requires an enormous amount of energy to digest food, large meals or oily foods can make you feel sleepy because your body is concentrating it's resources to process it.
2016-05-22 01:59:53 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is partially fatigue from too little sleep, so any relaxing period encourages sleepiness.
It is mostly from carbs and the sugar swing/crash. This is why people are sleepy after huge meals like Thanksgiving (it's not the tryptophan from the turkey).
2006-11-09 15:48:42 · answer #3 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because when we eat a lot of food our stomachs expand which uses a lot of energy to do so causing our sleepiness
2006-11-09 15:43:07 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Usually it's an overload of carbs and sugar and it's the low you get afterwards. I get tired right after I eat ANYTHING. I literally can't keep my eyes open and I HAVE to take a nap. It sucks.
Tonight, my dad was ordering dinner and I literally was saying what I wanted and fell asleep mid-sentence! I'd fallen asleep after eating vegetable soup earlier this afternoon...once I fall asleep, I can't wake up! It's awful.
2006-11-09 15:52:17 · answer #5 · answered by kmodek 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The blood in your body gears more towards your stomach, thus leaving your brain with less blood and sleepy. Talk to your bilogy teacher with the proper info.
2006-11-09 15:46:54 · answer #6 · answered by John Rogers 1 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Depending on what you eat, most of the time it is because your body uses quite a few resources to digest food.
2006-11-09 15:44:09 · answer #7 · answered by U2 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
all your blood goes to ur stomach and focus in ur digestion.... so you get week, is almost the same than loosing blood.... you get weak and sleepy....
2006-11-09 16:46:11 · answer #8 · answered by Mauricio H 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
because of tryotopham (amino acid) you ate that suppress the level of hormone from the pituitary and hypothalamus, thus inducing drowsiness
2006-11-09 16:27:29 · answer #9 · answered by cool nerd 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Part of it has to do with an amino acid tryptophan.
2006-11-09 15:58:27 · answer #10 · answered by cameron lally cscs 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋