Do This to Stop That Afternoon Crash (Sleepy after Lunch)

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all right so you need this nap after you eat or maybe you get sluggish um mid-afternoon and you’re trying to figure out what you can do because it’s interrupting your production okay so we’re going to talk about that today a lot of countries um take siestas um they take a nap after they eat and that includes Mexico and the Philippines in Spain Italy and even certain parts of uh France and so I really needed a nap in the past after I ate I was always tired I didn’t know why I thought I just needed more caffeine because that didn’t work because I couldn’t sleep that night so I had a big problem with fatigue in general in the morning I had a hard time waking up um it’d take me until 11 o’clock until I woke up and then I would eat lunch and then have to take a nap so it was just driving me crazy so the term for this the medical term is called post plan deal sambulance so post means after prandial means related to eating or a meal and simulants means drowsy or sleepy you’re sleepy or drowsy after a meal there are multiple reasons for this um I want to cover all of them there’s some theories that may or may not be true I’m just going to give you all of the information so then you can have a plan to not be so tired after you eat recently I did a trip in France in Italy to look at various farms and actually do some research that I’m doing on soil and I looked at their soils I looked at their farming methods and it was quite amazed and I had a chance to kind of see what both countries eat in the morning and at lunch there were some really healthy foods that people eat in fact the quality is much higher there than it is in America but of course there’s some added things that um kind of mess everything up you know what I’m talking about all the sugar the sweets the pasta the pizza the baguettes the croissants the bread the wine etc etc etc so what happens at this lunch time when you add carbohydrates okay especially if you’re doing a high carb diet and this could even apply if you’re doing high protein with high carbs it’s like the worst case scenario so what’s happening is you’re elevating blood sugar levels and you’re elevating insulin levels and initially maybe you can handle it okay and you don’t get tired but over time your body will start developing insulin resistance and what happens with insulin resistance in the cell is that it starts resisting not just insulin but the fuel glucose so with insulin resistance okay you eat this meal and you don’t get fuel into the cell so the cell lacks the energy right and if you don’t have enough energy boy you just want to take a nap you just kind of like I’m just tired right so that’s one reason why you might be tired I’m going to get to a good solution but glucose and Insulin itself makes you tired for example if a diabetic takes too much insulin injection they can actually get really really really tired mentally they used to do a therapy called insulin shock therapy back in I think the 20s and 30s where they would inject you with so much insulin you go into a coma and you’d wake up fat right and they did this for mental problems which is just crazy because it’s barbaric to put someone in a coma to help them with their mental problems doesn’t make sense and then what happens when the insulin goes up it pushes your glucose down so you end up with low blood sugar sometimes and that can make you tired as well so it’s it’s what it’s doing to your brain right it’s just messing with your central nervous system your brain high sugar low sugar and then no fuel to the cells not good for your overall energy especially your mental energy but it’s a amazing what people do especially what I’ve noticed in in Europe for lunchtime right after the heat you know they have to have a shot of espresso maybe two maybe three with a little cigarette and to keep them awake from the Gelato or the bread or the wine that they just drank now another reason why you might need to take a nap is um let’s say you just ate too much food which basically happens is you have this shift of blood flow that goes from your brain to your gut so now we have less blood flow in our brain and we also have a stimulation of something called the parasympathetic nervous system which is all about rest and digest okay so your body’s like ready to take a nap just from just too much food it usually happens after a Thanksgiving meal in America but too much food can do that now let’s add one other Factor let’s say for example you don’t have enough hydrochloric acid in your stomach to digest that food that can make you tired because you’re getting a lack of digestion so sometimes a simple addition of either apple cider vinegar before you eat in some water like a tablespoon or two can give you energy so you might want to try that or even better yet to take as a supplement betaine hydrochloride you might need to take five six seven or eight down that drink that right before you eat especially if you’re doing the Thanksgiving meal you’re going to find that you’re going to be less tired and you’ll have better digestion less bloating a good indication to know that you have low hydrochloric acid is that you get indigestion or bloating after eating or maybe even acid reflux or heartburn or even gerd that means you need more uh betame hydrochloride and the apple cider vinegar another reason why you’re tired is you’re not getting enough sleep at night okay I for years I pushed myself because um I did a lot of research a lot of different things so I’d get up extra early when I was in practice to be able to squeeze that in so I’d be getting up at 4 30 and I’d probably get like six hours of sleep which is just not enough so that right there can make you tired in the midday what I did to overcompensate is I took a nap but now I try to get a little bit more sleep so I don’t need a nap but lack of sleep will definitely make you tired I created a video on sleep a couple of them that are really good recent ones I’ll put those down below if you don’t sleep because just that right there can just make a huge difference with your ability to maintain your energy for the entire day so you can not have to take a nap after lunch or even mid-afternoon now let’s say for example it is mid-afternoon and you are tired some people um get a snack to give them energy that’s a mistake because now guess what you’re going to jack up insulin and now we’re gonna you’re gonna find you’re gonna be a little bit tired let’s say an hour and a half later or you’re going to be hungry an hour and a half later because now we we’re messing up the blood sugars these snacks are killer what you want to do is you want to adapt to the ketones and then running your body on ketones it’s a much better fuel system and you won’t be hungry between males and you won’t have a need for a snack if you need a snack mid-afternoon all that means is you’re running on glucose and you’re not running on ketones and there is a really great way to get your body around in ketones and I will give you that link in a minute if you’re tired don’t go for food to wake you up that’s not the best thing to do as far as another thing you can do um as a little kind of a hack you can postpone the coffee that you drink in the morning like push it up between 90 and 20 minutes later okay and that can actually help with that afternoon or after lunch dip in energy because what caffeine does is it blocks this this chemical compound called adenosine and that makes you less sleepy when you have adenosine that binds with your cells that equals sleepiness and this is why you have this at night so if you take a antagonist to that or a blocker to that like caffeine it can actually make you less sleepy that’s what it does and by delaying that process in the morning that can help with the afternoon dip and energy now one last thing that can make you