Does anyone crash after eating?

[Bluebluesky]

This happened to me when I was deficient in vitamin b6. I would fall asleep in the sofa immediately after eating dinner every evening. B6 is crucial for digesting protein and for producing stomach acid. It is like this feeling that the food remains unprocessed in the stomach and you get extremely tired and unwell.

B6 is tricky, though, as you can get too much, so just start on a small dose and be carefull. It can also kickstart magnesium uptake in which case you'll need extra magnesium to avoid magnesium deficiency symptoms.

I suppose this crashing could come from a lot of things, so this is just a suggestion about something to try out.

 

[Dysfunkion]

I get extremely tired after eating high fat or protein foods, from about 15 minutes after to about 3 hours after. Foods high in only carbs don't seem to have nearly as much of an effect.

This is a much different timespan than exercise crashes, which happen 24-48 hours after.

Interesting you bring up crash timing, that's something I also notice with triggers of all kinds. There is an actual reaction timeline specific to each response and it's a repeatable one. The effects with me from gluten or a lot of carbs are in that 15 minute window but hours later I don't get hit with much extreme fatigue, in fact 3 hours is usually when the effects start tapering off. If I eat animal protein though it's most multi staged, I'll get some mental effects in the 15 minute window, just generally feeling pretty wonky but then after a few hours into the next day I get hit with severe lethargy and general mental blunting. I can have all the stimulants I want and nothing will touch it. Really acidic food has long drawn out reactions too. For example if I eat something with a lot of tomato sauce like pizza after the initial carb/gluten sedation I will in the hours after into the next day be WIRED. but in a very bad way like I just drank 6 shots of espresso without any the positives of stimulants in general or coffee. The long day after reaction start to really taper of the day after that, really consistent pattern.

 

[stellaluna]

Depending on what I eat… It’s been hard to determine everything that makes me worse but UPF/restaurant food are the worst offenders.

Generally it seems seed oils/excess omega 6, food additives, excess saturated fat make me worse.

I have found that I can tolerate gluten, beans, FODMAPs just fine. In fact, I improve a bit on a 50g fibre/day diet without paying much attention to the types of fibre.

Food makes me crash. Food compounds with exertion to make me crash. Exertion when I’m not eating any trigger foods? Often seems to be fine? Unless I’m just delusional

 

[Rufous McKinney]

Food makes me crash

Chewing swallowing and digesting take energy, don't they?

Then there is the possible fable: blood going to the stomach (digesting).

I am often in a semi-coma at breakfast (which is around noon). I'll just be sleeping at the table, over my plate.

 

[Rufous McKinney]

For example if I eat something with a lot of tomato sauce like pizza after the initial carb/gluten sedation I will in the hours after into the next day be WIRED.

maybe overdosed on glutamate or histamine or both from Pizza.

Also nitrates/nitrites.

 

[stellaluna]

Chewing swallowing and digesting take energy, don't they?

Then there is the possible fable: blood going to the stomach (digesting).

I am often in a semi-coma at breakfast (which is around noon). I'll just be sleeping at the table, over my plate.

I don’t think I’m severe enough to crash from simply chewing, swallowing, and digesting.

The type of food definitely plays a role though. I have often eaten an 8 oz grass fed lean steak plus 400-500g of 3 different fruits (1200-1500g total) for dinner. It has never made me crash. On the other hand, a small order of french fries has made me crash. Homemade french toast with too much coconut cream also has made me crash. Grocery store lasagna has on two occasions. A bag of gummies.

 

[Dysfunkion]

maybe overdosed on glutamate or histamine or both from Pizza.

Also nitrates/nitrites.

I still have the tomato reaction with the enzymes but not as bad, like I said in the "strange dietary improvements" topic it seems well fermented bread really gets the bad things started and then after that everything starts piggy backing on the response immune wise but it would be because something gets activated in there by the specific compounds in bread and then everything else also fuels those bad guys initial reaction to it until I deplete the food source which in this case I found was something the caricain and Gluten Dairy Digest supplement could get.

 

[ruben]

If I wake up- have black coffee only, I can feel almost normal until I get hungry enough to eat.

No matter what I eat- 45 mins later or so I come down with brain fog, lethargy, that distinct feeling you’ve been poisoned.

infant, fasting with moderate exercise can actually fix me for a few days.

soon as I eat- I re-enter the state where time does not exist anymore and before I know it it’s 12am and I’ve no recollection of what I’ve even been doing or thinking about.

it really feeling like a signaling problem or something.

I certainly crash after eating, but I feel nothing close to normal before I eat.

 

[Dysfunkion]

I certainly crash after eating, but I feel nothing close to normal before I eat.

Before I eat, like lets say that I woke up that day and completely in my morning rush brain fog forgot to eat my usual breakfast and just had my black coffee/supplements. I'll tend to feel a bit more clear headed with a little more raw physical energy but I'll be much more neurologically unstable. More stress, more mood swings, more adrenaline, ect-. If ate the night before it'll be worse, fasting more reduces things a bit. The problem with me is that I have so many food sensitivities with building effects so even if I knock the danger of eating a larger variety of things down I still can't eat a lot. My guts probably also don't absorb things well so eating more usually just equals sicker no matter what it is. The best option I have now is less food but more broken up but I also fear my physical energy levels dropping too much for how much I need to physically move daily.

 

[southwestforests]

I have so many food sensitivities with building effects so even if I knock the danger of eating a larger variety of things down I still can't eat a lot.

Ohh, that adds several wrinkles to the food fabric.