Why do you feel sleepy after eating such as Thanksgiving Dinner?
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It's actually a common misconception that Turkey makes you sleepy. It does contain Tryptophan, but not in the form of a free amino acid.\n\nFrom wikipedia:\nAccording to popular belief, tryptophan in turkey meat causes drowsiness[9]. Turkey does contain tryptophan, which does have a documented sleep-inducing effect as it is readily converted into serotonin by the body. However, tryptophan is effective only when taken on its own as a free amino acid. Tryptophan in turkey is found as part of a protein, and, in small enough amounts, this mechanism seems unlikely[10].\n\nA more-likely hypothesis is that the ingestion of large quantities of food, such as at a Thanksgiving feast, means that large quantities of both carbohydrates and branched-chain amino acids are consumed. Like carbohydrates, branched-chain amino acids require insulin to be transduced through the myocyte membranes, which, after a large meal, creates a competition among the amino acids and glucose for insulin, while simultaneously creating tryptophan's reduced competition with other amino acids for the Large Neutral Amino Acid Transporter protein for transduction across the blood-brain barrier.
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Your body is trying to tell you that it needs a rest or it just needs food into your system because it is not getting enough oxygen to the brain. The best thing to do is to take a nap but, if you don't have time get something good to eat or something cold to drink.
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THERE ARE POWERFUL PHYTOCHEMICALS THAT MAY CURE YOU. LIKE RED OR BLUE GRAPES,PINEAPPLE,EASTERN BERRIES FROM ASIA LIKE LIPUTI.TRY THEM THEY WILL MAKE YOU FEEL SLEEPY AFTER INTAKE.IT IS NATURAL TOO.
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sounds like your mitochondrial system in your cells are a little over-loaded with blood sugar, try restricting carbohydrates and refined sugar, especially after sundown as this will keep you up at night.. Carbs are pasta, rice, bread and other starchy stuff, try more vedgetables and alkaline fruits, fresh food is also better than packaged.\n\neat in moderation and snack more if you are hungry a lot but reduce the meal size. Try to inclease the vitamin value of your food and read the labels of the food you do eat to better understand the ingredients that may be keeping you up. Cafein in soda tea or coffee could be keeping you up and tired, try reducing these drinks to 1-2 a day if you can.\non sleeping, the brain averages its sleep cycles in 90 minute periods for most of us although it is a little different for every one. try sleeping 7.5, 6 or 9 hours at a time the period needs to be divisable by 90 minutes.\n  Lastly try running, jogging or walking an hour or two every other day, amazing what exersize can do to regulate sleep and make you tired. I take a hot bath or shower after exersizing and I sleep like a baby.\n  Oh and stay away from sleep aides with the exception of a triptifan mouth spray, it is natural and has a great taste and you will not feel groggy in the A.m.\ngood luck!\n\noh a guy came to me once and he repeated over and over " I am a teepee I am a wigwam, I am a teepee I am a wigwam" I said "hey man you are just too tents!" (joking) tension and stress will keep you awake too, reduce stresses at home work and school when you can, yoga, thaichi (sp.?) and pilaties can help with stress too. have fun joke aroud more and ditch anyone in your life who is depressing, find people who are fun and uplifting.
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yes you should not go to sleep right after eating, and if your face is puffy you are holding water in your tissues.
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Sometimes when you get ill after eating something, it wasn't necessarily bad food.  You may have had a touch of stomach flu beforehand and the overeating could have just exacerbated the symptoms.\nRemember that the holidays are notorious for rich foods.  I went through 5 pounds of butter making dinner for today..that type of food could upset anyone with a queasy stomach.
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It is because after eating the concentration of sugar in the blood increases which leads to ex-osmosis ie movement of water from the body cells to the blood where there is high concentration of solute. The movement of water from the cell results in the reduced metabolism which courses one to feel sleepy.
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no, there are many foods that have ingredients that make you sleepy. For example A good turkey dinner. Plus it is perfectly normal becuase your body does not feel the need to search for food for the time being.
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your body is busy fighting and is rejecting things that weaken it so you are not in a hungry mood. It will accept nourishment and you need to force some things to keep strong.\n\nGood luck and God Bless!!
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I have had major sleep problems and here are some things that have helped me.  Mind racing at night is a sign of serotonin deficiency.  Serotonin is a chemical in the brain that makes us feel good and relaxed.  \n\nSerotonin is made from tryptophan, an amino acid component of protein.  There's a lot of tryptophan in turkey, which is why we do get sleepy after Thanksgiving dinner.  There's some in milk.  The trick is that tryptophan has to compete with other amino acids to cross what's called the "blood-brain barrier."  Other amino acids make other brain chemicals that make us feel alert and on edge (like epinephrine - similar to adrenalin).  \n\nSo, bottom line is, try eating more turkey.  Or have some milk with high carbs that increase your insulin and let tryptophan win the race to the blood-brain barrier and make serotonin.  Carbs can be things like a piece of fruit, or some bread.  My favorite is a "milk shake" with fruit.\n\nOther hints - keep the room dark.  Try to establish a routine for going to bed, to train your mind that it's getting time to get ready for sleep (like training Pavlov's dog).  A simple routine like - brush your teeth, get dressed for bed, write a few minutes in a journal, just long enough so your brain has time to adjust to the sleep that's coming.\n\nGood luck to you.
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I had to look back at what the others were saying. I looked everything up in my books again to make sure it was right before I put it down.\n   Tryptophan is not a sleep inducing drug in turkey but a derivative of broccoli and corn that was found by Dr. Ray Sahelian M.D. The chemical 5-Hydroxy-tryptophan s erotonin is actually a sleep enhancement not to make you sleepy. So if you eat enough turkey you should be running around in circles\n\n   Actually if you eat enough of everything your eating enough carbohydrates and fats, sugars, to induce your body to be working overtime, it's working more than it has all year. Your bound to be sleepy.
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After taking the meal don;t go for sleep immediately and if that problem arisies in a day also then do not sit continously on a one place keep yourself moving.  \n\nThe best remedy is take some METHI KE DANNE after your meal with water that will help you lot to digest your food, and don;t take too much oily & spicy food.
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Usually the reasons we eat when we're not hungry are things like depression, boredom, for comfort, etc.\n\nIf you know that you're eating when you're not hungry, find something else to do besides eating (or a dormant activity).  Go out and ride your bike or take a walk around the block.  Play with the dog or some other ACTIVE activity.  If you're unable to get away from a dormant situation (i.e. doing homework), brush your teeth.  When we have freshly brushed teeth, we tend not to want to eat anything right away.\n\nIncrease your intake of water as well.  Especially since Summer is coming (or here for some of us), it helps keep us hydrated as well as keeps us having a somewhat full feeling.\n\nGood luck - my mom has yummy stuff when I go to visit her too.
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The body redirects blood circulation to the stomach for digestion purposes after a meal..It IS  beneficial to lay down after a meal so that digestion works better.In fact if you look at animals in the wild they usually lay down roll on their backs and sleep for a few hours after a meal .Maybe they know something we don't. The only thing I can think of that may be a problem laying down after a meal is people with acid reflux disease, but even then a person could lay down propped up on pillows. Do what your body tells you to do not what society wants
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If you've been trying your best to keep sugar and snacks at a minimum, even the smallest snack eaten after a little while of eating properly can cause you some discomfort. Your body almost "forgets" how to properly digest fats, sugars, starches and salts and gets very "upset", so to speak, when it must all of a sudden break these things down.
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Eating food raises your blood's sugar level as it gets digested.  The rising sugar level causes your pancreas to increase insulin.  It is the sharp increase of insulin into your blood, which then LOWERS your blood sugar level, which causes the sleepiness.  Higher glycemic index foods (starches, sugars, simple carbohydrates) make this effect more pronounced.
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well.. u use a lot of energy to do it, and it releases like sme hormones that make u sleepy. dont u feel dizzy and tired and sleepy after? ok. hope that answers ur question\n\nand yes.