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RE: Why does fatty food make you sleepy. Or is there something more going on?
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.