Causes of excessive sleep in the afternoon: It is very common to feel sleepy after lunch. You must have seen your colleagues in the office yawning or taking a light nap after lunch. You must have also experienced this. You must have seen the elders at home sleeping after noon. Many times in the afternoon it feels as if our body is getting exhausted. It is very difficult to stop this sleep. But, have you ever wondered why we feel more sleepy in the afternoon? Why do we start feeling lethargic, tired and weak in the body? Apollomedics Super Specialty Hospital Lucknow is giving detailed information about this to AnyTV. Senior Dietician Preeti Pandey-
According to dieticians, feeling sleepy and lethargic after lunch along with fatigue and weakness in the body is not normal. The condition of feeling drowsiness and mild pain in the body after eating food is called ‘food coma’. However, no concrete reason for this has been found in humans so far. People often ignore it thinking it to be sleepiness after eating food, but there may be some reasons behind it, which we should pay attention to.
Main reasons for feeling more sleepy in the afternoon
Decreased blood circulation in the brain: According to dietician Preeti Pandey, we should eat less food in the afternoon. Actually, eating more food requires more energy to digest it and the digestive system needs more blood to digest the food. Eating lunch reduces the blood circulation in your brain for some time. Also, the activity of the body decreases and you start feeling lethargic and sleepy.
Blood sugar level decreases rapidly: According to dieticians, our body needs energy to work. For this we have breakfast, lunch and dinner. The nutrition we eat in this becomes the source of energy for our body. As soon as we eat food, the intestine starts digesting the food. This causes the blood sugar level to decrease, which makes us feel lethargic and sleepy.
Hormones also cause excessive sleep: Sometimes the hormones of the body also become the reason for sleepiness. Actually, sometimes serotonin is produced rapidly after eating food, due to which lethargy increases in the person and one feels like sleeping. Let us tell you that serotonin is the hormone that controls many functions of the body. It also plays the role of an antidepressant in the body. Serotonin increases with protein.
What to eat to avoid sleep and lethargy: According to experts, people who skip breakfast and have lunch directly have more sleep problems. Actually, such people take a heavy meal in lunch to compensate for the skipped breakfast, which makes them feel more lazy. It is better to eat whole grain products, oats, brown bread, eggs, omelet and fruits in breakfast. Also, keep drinking water from time to time to keep the body hydrated to remain agile throughout the day. By doing this, you will not feel lethargic in the body.
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FIRST PUBLISHED : June 9, 2024, 10:46 IST