Why does fatty food make you sleepy. Or is there something more going on?
I especially love the title of the HuffPo article, what outstanding clickbait:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/11/22/sleepy-after-eating-a-big-meal-why_n_2171058.html
Sleepy After Eating A Big Meal? Here’s Why
skip to the clincher of this rubbish:
More specifically, researchers found, a group of brain cells called orexin neurons that are found in the hypothalmus are very sensitive to glucose levels, which spike after a big meal. Those neurons produce a protein, orexin, which moderates wakefulness in the brain.
Actual science! For your edification, I highlighted the crucial point. The real causes are twofold:
- Big fat meal.
- Big load of carbs.
In fact, a big fat meal with zero fat will still make you sleepy. If you get this problem, test it out for yourself.
I want to also add another factor, from my own self-study. There is more than a few sources of organobromide compounds in our environment. They are in almost all plastics and are constantly being released into our environments as these materials age. This bromine is why white plastics eventually turn a dirty brown colour, and why peroxide gel removes it (oxidising elemental halides makes them water soluble, and invisible).
When you have a large intake of fat, it also can tell the intestines 'oppa, big load of fat incoming, switch to fat metabolism'.
Guess where organobromide fire retardants accumulate.
10 bux to the person on the right front who yelled out 'Fat tissue'.
Second question to the audience:
Guess what happens when you ingest bromide salts
Most of you will be probably too young to remember that back in the old days, you could get potassium bromide tablets as a sedative. Do you know why they don't give it out anymore?
http://www.gulflink.osd.mil/library/randrep/pb_paper/mr1018.2.chap10.html
Turns out that even water soluble bromine, when taken in excess, can cause bizarre psychiatric symptoms that are nearly impossible to treat withtout first suspecting that bromide levels are elevated in the blood.
And as I say, that can include fat metabolism, releasing safely stored excess bromides converted to natural lipid soluble forms, as well as the ones you are probably inhaling right now.
This is also why, the most effective treatment for all of this, as well as helping get your endocrine system back in order, is Lugol's Iodine, which contains a combination of lipid soluble and water soluble iodine. The fat soluble iodine goes into the fatty tissue as well, dislodges half of the bromine, causing it to oxidise to bromide, then that goes into your blood.
Then you will get a problem like I am dealing with right now - you guessed it, excessive daytime sleepiness.
The solution, and cure, and it works within about 10 minutes, is to dump a lot of salt into your stomach fairly quickly (about half a teaspoon or so, preferably unrefined so you get lots of micro nutrients as well, and this drives the kidney to accelerate salt elimination, and along with the exttra salt you put in, out goes most of that sleep inducing bromide.
If I have Burger King I feel like I want to lay down in the middle of the street. What causes this?
I'm also at an age if I drink one beer I'll have to take a nap if I don't keep drinking.
I had that same thing happen with a single beer back about 8 years ago also, pretty regularly. It's bromide, I'm sure of it. I suppose I could do a replication test by actually going and buying a little jar of potassium bromide from the local lab shop and measuring up an appropriate dose and seeing how similar it feels to the stuff that is being triggered by food.
I hadn't been having this problem, for the last 4 years, and for 4 years before that I was routinely taking lugol's iodine, and eating fairly high doses of unrefined salt with my food, the both of which clear out bromine/bromide. However, this last 5 weeks, I quit weed, then energy drinks, then cigarettes, and then alcohol, and after 3 days, at which point the lack of deep delta wave sleep starts to cause muscle weakness from lack of repair, I tried using darkness to treat the inability to sleep (alcohol detox is a bit like taking meth, without taking meth, thus my personality change during that time)
Within 1 hour of turning out all the lights, I suddenly and overwhelmingly felt the need to be horizontal, I slept all of 5 minutes, and woke up to a nasty nightmare with some crazy bitch telling me I didn't belong, and bashing me over the head with random objects.
It is abnormal to start dreaming before at least 10 minutes after falling asleep. Normally this leads to a narcolepsy diagnosis.
The information that Huffpo was decent enough to quote, sounds accurate to me - it's also not just this orexite or whatever it is protein involved, though it is part of it. The stomach has sensors that detect when the stomach is full, and shut off the 'hungry' feeling. Sugars, however, start absorbing in the stomach directly, they don't have to go further down, unlike fats and proteins. So withtin 10 minutes of eating any food, your blood sugar will go up, if there is carbohydrates in the food.
The 'fullness feeling' stimulates the release of serotonin, which stops the hungry feeling. The 'ate too much' feeling, is that, combined with the rush in blood sugar, which also triggers the loosing of sticky tryptophan from the walls of blood vessels, which goes into the brain, and turns into stuff that makes you sleepy. A sharp rise in blood sugar in the brain also triggers glutamate activity to rise, which normally will then trigger GABA and GHB to release.
Alcohol screws up the GABA and GHB system, in particular. So the sequence of events that I discovered in my detox process was, sugar in the blood, tingles all over the body, body core temperature rises, brain temperature rises, due to glutamate response to sugar in the blood in the brain. GHB/GABA do not respond due to being chronically hammered by alcohol, and then you get a sleepy, hot-headed delerium called Delerium Tremens.
I believe the missing element from the science about sleep onset is Bromine. As I mentioned, and posted references to the effects of accumulated excess bromine, that was discovered in the first gulf war, this effect happens anywhere using bromate bleach in bread happens (USA, but not in Europe, though possibly in Bulgaria still, since rules are flexible here), there is organobromides in all plastics, in the USA still, there is brominated fatty acids used in many soft drinks, and so on.
I believe that one of the ways the body reacts to an excess of bromide intake, is to convert it to organo/amino bromides, that are sequestered safely in fatty tissue. Then, when you put high fat food in your stomach, a signal is sent from the intestines that fat metabolism needs to be turned on, and some of that metabolism happens also in the form of burning fat. The fat from the fatty cells is put back into the blood, the organo/amino/bromides re-enter the bloodstream, and voila.
Within 5 minutes you feel like gravity just got turned up 10x and you can't keep your eyes open.
I just tested this this morning, as I had this effect start to kick in and try to ruin my morning, and I thought, "Ok, here's an opportunity to test", So I got some of my salty lemonade mix, downed enough to about maybe 1/4-1/2 a teaspoon worth of salt, and within 2 minutes the sleepiness was no longer attacking me.
So maybe you can try that next time you feel possessed to eat a juicy greasy burger, if you get sleepy, just throw one of those little salt sachets in your mouth, and wash it down with your brominated dr pepper or mountain dew, and see if it doesn't mitigate some of the feeling.
Then you will have a proper diagnosis on your hands.
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