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all right so you need this nap after you

eat or maybe you get sluggish

um mid-afternoon and you’re trying to

figure out what you can do because it’s

interrupting your production okay so

we’re going to talk about that today a

lot of countries

um take siestas

um they take a nap after they eat and

that includes Mexico and the Philippines

in Spain Italy and even certain parts of

uh France and so I really needed a nap

in the past after I ate I was always

tired I didn’t know why I thought I just

needed more caffeine because that didn’t

work because I couldn’t sleep that night

so I had a big problem with fatigue in

general in the morning I had a hard time

waking up

um it’d take me until 11 o’clock until I

woke up and then I would eat lunch and

then have to take a nap so it was just

driving me crazy so the term for this

the medical term is called post plan

deal

sambulance so post means after

prandial means related to eating or a

meal and simulants means drowsy or

sleepy you’re sleepy or drowsy after a

meal there are multiple reasons for this

um I want to cover all of them there’s

some theories that may or may not be

true I’m just going to give you all of

the information so then you can have a

plan to not be so tired after you eat

recently I did a trip in France in Italy

to look at various farms and actually do

some research that I’m doing on soil and

I looked at their soils I looked at

their farming methods and it was quite

amazed and I had a chance to kind of see

what both countries eat in the morning

and at lunch there were some really

healthy foods that people eat in fact

the quality is much higher there than it

is in America but of course there’s some

added things that um kind of mess

everything up you know what I’m talking

about all the sugar the sweets the pasta

the pizza the baguettes the croissants

the bread the wine etc etc etc so what

happens at this lunch time when you add

carbohydrates okay especially if you’re

doing a high carb diet and this could

even apply if you’re doing high protein

with high carbs it’s like the worst case

scenario so what’s happening is you’re

elevating blood sugar levels and you’re

elevating insulin levels and initially

maybe you can handle it okay and you

don’t get tired but over time your body

will start developing insulin resistance

and what happens with insulin resistance

in the cell is that it starts resisting

not just insulin but the fuel glucose so

with insulin resistance okay you eat

this meal and you don’t get fuel into

the cell so the cell lacks the energy

right and if you don’t have enough

energy boy you just want to take a nap

you just kind of like I’m just tired

right so that’s one reason why you might

be tired

I’m going to get to a good solution but

glucose and Insulin itself makes you

tired for example if a diabetic takes

too much insulin injection they can

actually get really really really tired

mentally they used to do a therapy

called insulin shock therapy back in I

think the 20s and 30s where they would

inject you with so much insulin you go

into a coma and you’d wake up fat right

and they did this for mental problems

which is just crazy because it’s

barbaric to put someone in a coma to

help them with their mental problems

doesn’t make sense and then what happens

when the insulin goes up it pushes your

glucose down so you end up with low

blood sugar sometimes and that can make

you tired as well so it’s it’s what it’s

doing to your brain right it’s just

messing with your central nervous system

your brain high sugar low sugar and then

no fuel to the cells not good for your

overall energy especially your mental

energy but it’s a amazing what people do

especially what I’ve noticed in in

Europe for lunchtime right after the

heat you know they have to have a shot

of espresso maybe two maybe three with a

little cigarette and to keep them awake

from the Gelato or the bread or the wine

that they just drank now another reason

why you might need to take a nap is um

let’s say you just ate too much food

which basically happens is you have this

shift of blood flow

that goes from your brain to your gut so

now we have less blood flow in our brain

and we also have a stimulation of

something called the parasympathetic

nervous system which is all about rest

and digest okay so your body’s like

ready to take a nap just from just too

much food

it usually happens after a Thanksgiving

meal in America but too much food can do

that now let’s add one other Factor

let’s say for example you don’t have

enough hydrochloric acid in your stomach

to digest that food that can make you

tired because you’re getting a lack of

digestion so sometimes a simple addition

of either apple cider vinegar before you

eat in some water like a tablespoon or

two can give you energy so you might

want to try that or even better yet to

take as a supplement betaine

hydrochloride you might need to take

five six seven or eight down that drink

that right before you eat especially if

you’re doing the Thanksgiving meal

you’re going to find that you’re going

to be less tired and you’ll have better

digestion less bloating a good

indication to know that you have low

hydrochloric acid is that you get

indigestion or bloating after eating or

maybe even acid reflux or heartburn or

even gerd that means you need more uh

betame hydrochloride and the apple cider

vinegar another reason why you’re tired

is you’re not getting enough sleep at

night okay I

for years I pushed myself because

um I did a lot of research a lot of

different things so I’d get up extra

early when I was in practice to be able

to squeeze that in so I’d be getting up

at 4 30 and I’d probably get like six

hours of sleep which is just not enough

so that right there can make you tired

in the midday what I did to

overcompensate is I took a nap but now I

try to get a little bit more sleep so I

don’t need a nap but lack of sleep will

definitely make you tired I created a

video on sleep a couple of them that are

really good recent ones I’ll put those

down below if you don’t sleep because

just that right there can just make a

huge difference with your ability to

maintain your energy for the entire day

so you can not have to take a nap after

lunch or even mid-afternoon

now let’s say for example it is

mid-afternoon and you are tired some

people

um get a snack

to give them energy that’s a mistake

because now guess what you’re going to

jack up insulin and now we’re gonna

you’re gonna find you’re gonna be a

little bit tired let’s say an hour and a

half later or you’re going to be hungry

an hour and a half later because now we

we’re messing up the blood sugars these

snacks are killer what you want to do is

you want to adapt to the ketones and

then running your body on ketones it’s a

much better fuel system and you won’t be

hungry between males and you won’t have

a need for a snack if you need a snack

mid-afternoon all that means is you’re

running on glucose and you’re not

running on ketones and there is a really

great way to get your body around in

ketones and I will give you that link in

a minute if you’re tired don’t go for

food to wake you up that’s not the best

thing to do as far as another thing you

can do

um

as a little kind of a hack you can

postpone the coffee that you drink in

the morning like push it up between 90

and 20 minutes later okay

and that can actually help with that

afternoon or after lunch dip in energy

because what caffeine does is it blocks

this this chemical compound called

adenosine and that makes you less sleepy

when you have adenosine that binds with

your cells that equals sleepiness and

this is why you have this at night so if

you take a antagonist to that or a

blocker to that like caffeine it can

actually make you less sleepy that’s

what it does and by delaying that

process in the morning that can help

with the afternoon dip and energy now

one last thing that can make you kind of

tired and I’m talking mainly about tired

through the whole day it’s called

chronic fatigue syndrome that’s usually

a deeper viral thing going on that’s

some virus that you had long ago like

Epstein-Barr virus or something like

that that’s been reactivated because of

recent stress

so yes there’s a lot of different things

you can take for viruses but the most

important thing is to get rid of

whatever that stress is do something to

improve it and that will put that virus

back in remission and all of a sudden

you’ll have more energy and also vitamin

D will help as well so number one get on

the healthy version of the ketogenic

diet and that includes doing

intermittent fasting so you can adapt to

Fat fuel the ketones and then you

actually can go between meals without

that dip because if you’re running a

glucose you’re going to run out of

energy real fast if you’re running on

ketones you have an almost unlimited

amount of energy you can run on because

it’s fat fuel so number one get into

ketosis number two do whatever you can

to improve your sleep I’ll put a link

down below for that number three delay

that coffee in the morning by 90 to 120

minutes and last point is to take some

apple cider vinegar or retain

hydrochloride right before you eat to

get more hydrochloric acid to digest

that protein and other foods to help you

prevent that sluggishness in your

digestive system all right I think the

best next video is this one on sleep

check it out I put it right here