Re:Why thinking hard makes us feel tired
by Brybry on Friday August 12, 2022 @05:27AM
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Just a note that there are common conditions like postprandial hypotension[1] (or various other types of hypotension) where what you want is more, smaller meals.
The way a doctor explained it to me is blood rushes to the digestive system after we eat and, while normally bodies compensate for that via increased blood pressure (vasoconstriction and heart rate increase), for some people that process doesn't work well and they get a blood pressure drop instead.
Re:Why thinking hard makes us feel tired
by xnoreq on Friday August 12, 2022 @06:50PM
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Good point. To me it doesn't really matter if I do 2 large meals or 5 small ones. With the "constant eating" I meant the duration and not the frequency.
The way a doctor explained it to me is blood rushes to the digestive system after we eat and, while normally bodies compensate for that via increased blood pressure (vasoconstriction and heart rate increase), for some people that process doesn't work well and they get a blood pressure drop instead.
[1] https://academic.oup.com/biomedgerontology/article/60/10/126...