Here's The Real Reason You Feel Supremely Sleepy In Office After Lunch
The culprit behind the post meal sleep is higher protein and salt content in our food
Well, most of us suffer from post-meal sleep problems and the culprit behind this is higher protein and salt content in our food, as well as the volume consumed according to a new research.
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Researchers at The Scripps Research Institute in the US created a system that can measure both the sleep and feeding behaviours of individual fruit flies and discovered that, in much the same way as humans, the insects sleep for longer periods following larger meals.
Recordings of fruit flies¡¯ behaviour from this system revealed that after eating a meal, the insect sleeps more before returning to a normal state of wakefulness. Further studies also revealed that certain types of food can promote post-meal sleep.
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To better understand this relationship, William Ja and his team created the Activity Recording CAFE (ARC), a system for flies that enables visual tracking of food consumption and insect motion. To determine if individual nutrients could modulate post-meal sleep, the team gave the flies food consisting of protein, salt or sugar.
The study, published in the journal eLife, found that only protein and salt were affectors of post-meal sleep, suggesting that this form of sleep can indeed be regulated by specific food types.
¡°As sleep is a vulnerable state for animals in nature, it will be interesting to discover why post-meal naps are necessary,¡± Ja added.
