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There's quite a few reason why we feel sleepy after eating. So let me explain the few and obvious ones. first reason: Eating sugary foods causes your brain to make lots of neurotransmitters, melatonin. Those are the hormones responsible to make people sleepy head naturally at night.
In the last few years, the link between what we eat and our sleep patterns has emerged as an important piece in the obesity puzzle. Not only can the right food aid sleep, it works the other way too â better sleep promotes weight loss. Lack of sleep, however, has been found to stimulate production of hunger hormone ghrelin, which makes us overeat. Evidence shows that the more sleep you get, the fewer calories you eat the next day.