Jess Cording

that starch that's beginning to enter the bloodstream as carbohydrate.

Because what happens when we eat any kind of starch, pasta is an example, as we digest that food, the molecules, the starch molecules break down to smaller and smaller pieces and then enter our bloodstream as, you know, like glucose, fructose, for example.

And then they go to all the cells that need it to do their jobs.

And we need some, that's important.

But what happens initially as our body is trying to help with that process of getting the

carbs to where they need to go in the body.

It releases insulin, which also has the effect of increasing our body's absorption of amino acids.

And one that a lot of people have heard about is tryptophan, which is found in Thanksgiving turkey gets the most airtime, but you're going to find it in other animal proteins.

You're going to find it in like oats, chickpeas, a few other foods.

And that actually has been shown to help promote sleep.

So what you may find is if you eat

a lot of carbs all at once, you may get really sleepy really quickly.

And also your body's working really hard to process all that carbohydrate.

But then what can happen is if there wasn't enough protein that meal, not enough fat, not enough fiber, you may find you wake up feeling ravenous, irritable, kind of just off a little bit later.

Yeah.

I call that sodium.

Yes.

Yeah.

A salty meal.

That's definitely going to have that effect.