8 Reasons Why You Feel So Tired After Eating (and What to Do About It)

1. Your Body Is Digesting Food

“When you digest food, your digestive tract is getting an increase of blood supply,” Dr. Farhadi says. As a result, this can reduce blood supply to the brain, causing feelings of sleepiness. Farhadi explains that this feeling is normal and can actually bring about a state of calm rather than just fatigue.

“A release of serotonin occurs when you digest food, and the gut is one of the major producers of that serotonin,” Dr. Farhadi says. This creates a relaxing effect in the body, causing you to feel calm after eating.

How to Fix It

It might help to anticipate that eating may leave you feeling a bit sleepy. But if…

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