Sleepiness Associated With Protein And Salt Result To Post Meal Fatigue

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We’ve all had that awesome meal – one or too many of it. After a sumptuous dinner, we tend to doze off and the next thing we know, it’s early morning already. We experience this from time to time, and let’s hope that it doesn’t turn into a habit because you know, health-wise and waist issues.

Medical Express reports that based on a new research, it appears that sleepiness is triggered because of the high protein and sodium content in the food that we consume. By the way, the volume of food matters too. Yes, it eventually leads to longer naps.

Protein And Salt Drive Post-Meal Sleepiness

Writing in the journal eLife, scientists from The Scripps Research Institute, US, have for the first time found a way to study ‘food comas’ in the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster and explained some of the causes behind this phenomenon. Read more…

It appears that the experiment in fruit flies hinted that sleep and feeding behaviours go hand in hand. The scientists at The Scripps Research Institute in the US came up with a system that can measure these two factors.

They found out that the fruit flies had the same characteristic as humans: they take longer naps after eating larger meals. What does it say about us? Find out more here:

Salt And Protein In Food Lead To Post-Meal Sleepiness

To better understand this relationship, William Ja and his team created the Activity Recording CAFE (ARC), a system for flies that enables visual tracking of food consumption and insect motion. Read more…

The Deccan Chronicle explains that scientists point out that the nutrientcontent are factors that contribute to the post-meal drowsiness that you often feel after a big lunch or dinner. The higher the protein and sodium content, the more likely you are to exhibit this behaviour.

The scientists monitored the flies and the system shows records that after eating a large meal, these insects sleep after consuming a meal. This period lasts for 20 – 40 minutes, and those who ate more, slept even longer. 

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They found that only protein and salt were effectors of post-meal sleep, suggesting that this form of sleep can indeed be regulated by specific food types. Read more…

Through this study, it gives us a better understanding of the human behavior. Not only that but it also supports the idea that food or nutrient choices may have an important effect on this habit.

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