why do people get tired after they eat?
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When you eat your insulin and blood glucose rise. At some point your insulin will rise high enough that it will push your blood glucose down. Sometimes insulin rises too high, and pushes blood glucose down too far.
When your body senses low blood glucose, it assumes there is low energy availability – so you get tired in order to preserve that energy.
Whether or not you get tired after eating depends on what you eat. You probably won’t get tired from a few slices of cheese and deli meat. But if you have a couple slices of bread, or some crackers, you may get a crash soon after.
About 5-6 peanut M&Ms will send me towards a snooze in the late afternoon.
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