Jess Cording

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

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 in 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.

So that's from sodium.

Yes.

Yeah.

A salty meal, that's definitely going to have that effect.

It can.

A few things to think about in this case.

So one, you mentioned light.

That could look like if you're eating in front of the television close to night.

That's going to disrupt your body's levels of melatonin, and the brain's going to get kind of confused.

Like, I don't get it.