Book Title: Combating Sleep Disorders
Authors: Gina Graci, Kathy Sexton-Radek
The heavy lunch makes you sleepy
You got back from lunch and started feeling drowsy. No doubt carbohydrate intake induces generation of Serotonin which promotes sleepiness, digestion of food increases body temperature increasing alertness. It is the circadian rhythm of the human body that gives a natural boost in sleepiness typically from midnight to 7am as well as from 1pm to 4pm in the afternoon. So, don’t blame the food.


