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If I have a full meal I barely can stay awake. I know that the body switches into a different mode to process the meal and extract the proteins etc and for this

If I have a full meal I barely can stay awake. I know that the body switches into a different mode to process the meal and extract the proteins etc and for this it drains me of other energy like focusing. It is interesting how my productivity increases with hunger. That's why lions sleep 20 hours a day. After a massive meal they can barely do anything but digest. So I think mammals' first thing of the day is to go out and find food. Once food found and eaten there's no point to stay awake. I really think that a meal concludes the day not starts it in the animal world. Although providing the body with just enough to keep it fueled and in a way that it won't have to put you to sleep to extract the proteins we can make ourselves do more and take hunger & sleeping off our minds during the day. To stay fresh just don't starve or over-eat yourselves. It works for me.

TrevorJ 17y ago
It can also depend on what you eat from what I hear. Some foods can wreak more havoc on blood sugar levels than others.
- sonofjanoh 17y ago
  True. Some types of food will take a lot of work from the digestive system to be broken down before the body can use them as a source of energy. That's why you put highly refined petrol into a car and not raw oil. It's choosing a musli bar over a burger...well almost.
  - speek 17y ago
    Actually... a burger (without the bun, ideally with lots of veggies) will trigger a much less jagged insulin response than a musli bar will. Fats and proteins tend to raise the blood sugar in a much more sustainable fashion... thus allowing the eater to not feel sleepy after a meal.
    - HalcyonMuse 17y ago
      "A more sustainable fashion" relative to what? Carbohydrates, I'm guessing?
jonsen 17y ago
A lion can eat and digest a large amount of calories and nutrition from a single meal. Apes have to forage for suitable and enough vegetables for a longer period of the day. I would rather infer humans natural digestion design from that of the apes.

TrevorJ 17y ago

It can also depend on what you eat from what I hear. Some foods can wreak more havoc on blood sugar levels than others.

sonofjanoh 17y ago
True. Some types of food will take a lot of work from the digestive system to be broken down before the body can use them as a source of energy. That's why you put highly refined petrol into a car and not raw oil. It's choosing a musli bar over a burger...well almost.
- speek 17y ago
  Actually... a burger (without the bun, ideally with lots of veggies) will trigger a much less jagged insulin response than a musli bar will. Fats and proteins tend to raise the blood sugar in a much more sustainable fashion... thus allowing the eater to not feel sleepy after a meal.
  - HalcyonMuse 17y ago
    "A more sustainable fashion" relative to what? Carbohydrates, I'm guessing?

jonsen 17y ago

A lion can eat and digest a large amount of calories and nutrition from a single meal. Apes have to forage for suitable and enough vegetables for a longer period of the day. I would rather infer humans natural digestion design from that of the apes.