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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.
For anyone with anemia, drinking coffee/tea/red wine with a meal could be problematic in that it will reduce the iron absorbed from the food consumed. After a heavy meal the body is in the process of active digestion. Which means it requires a lot of blood supply to that area. One of the reasons people feel sleepy post lunch is because of this.