why do we get sleepy after lunch?

Answer 1

Sugar levels in our bodies drop

Answer 2

If you feel sleepy after eating, particularly after sweet or bakery products, you are normal. Eating sugary foods causes your brain to make large amounts of the neurotransmitter, serotonin, that makes people fall asleep naturally at night.


Eating sugary foods or those made from flour, such as bakery products or pastas, causes blood sugar to rise higher than normal. This causes your pancreas to release large amounts of insulin, which drives one of the protein building blocks called tryptophan from your bloodstream into your brain, where it is converted to serotonin that makes you feel sleepy.

Many people can avoid feeling sleepy after eating by restricting foods high in sugar and flour. When it is important for you to be alert, eat foods that do not cause a high rise in blood sugar, such as vegetable salads, nuts, seeds, meat, fish and chicken.

Answer 3

Digesting food especially a large amount takes up energy which makes you sleepy

Answer 4

well the weght of the food is reflected in the formula pi r squared and then seeing as the moon is a sphere which in turn regulates the tides which alter your moods after you eat do to some word that starts with a t, ultimately making you sleepy.

Answer 5

I've always heard it's because the blood in the brain gets rerouted to the stomach to digest the food. The stomach is too busy processing and only so much blood to fuel both at one time.

Answer 6

your blood sugar goes up after food, especailly a high carb meal- unless you are diabetic, it naturally comes down as your body produces insulin. that's why you shouldn't cure the after lunch 'slump' with a chocolate bar as that makes the blood sugar surge again.

Answer 7

A full gut does it to ya every time. Don't know why but it happens

Answer 8

you're probably eating too many carbs which weigh you down.

Answer 9

bcuz its TIME 2 go back to work!


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