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It’s known as postprandial somnolence, which is basically a fancy word for a food coma, says W. Christopher Winter, MD, a neurologist and sleep medicine physician with Charlottesville Neurology ...
Postprandial somnolence (colloquially known as food coma, after-dinner dip, or "the itis") is a normal state of drowsiness or lassitude following a meal. Postprandial somnolence has two components: a general state of low energy related to activation of the parasympathetic nervous system in response to mass in the gastrointestinal tract , and a ...
A more technical term for it is “postprandial somnolence” which simply means feeling fatigued following a meal. In the words of Nikolay Kukushkin, a clinical associate professor of life ...
Prevention Low-carbohydrate diet, frequent small meals Reactive hypoglycemia , postprandial hypoglycemia , or sugar crash is a term describing recurrent episodes of symptomatic hypoglycemia occurring within four hours [ 1 ] after a high carbohydrate meal in people with and without diabetes. [ 2 ]
Somnolence is often viewed as a symptom rather than a disorder by itself. However, the concept of somnolence recurring at certain times for certain reasons constitutes various disorders, such as excessive daytime sleepiness, shift work sleep disorder, and others; and there are medical codes for somnolence as viewed as a disorder.
15874 Ensembl ENSG00000121351 ENSMUSG00000041681 UniProt P10997 P12968 RefSeq (mRNA) NM_000415 NM_001329201 NM_010491 RefSeq (protein) NP_000406 NP_001316130 NP_034621 Location (UCSC) Chr 12: 21.35 – 21.38 Mb Chr 6: 142.24 – 142.25 Mb PubMed search Wikidata View/Edit Human View/Edit Mouse Amino acid sequence of amylin with disulfide bridge and cleavage sites of insulin degrading enzyme ...
But people who took 2,000 international units (IU) of vitamin D and did 30 minutes of strength training three times a week (in addition to the 1 gram of omega-3 fatty acids) saw an even greater ...