Apathy Tree

Huh, I wonder if that’s what they are seeing on my eye scans, and not super early macular degeneration… I do have an irregular heartbeat with frequent palpitations, but my docs think its just stress related and haven’t done much in the way of testing.

I don’t understand the research paper well enough to know if they present similarly.

I don’t have sleep apnea.

Again, its not being tired at mid-day. If I don’t eat, I don’t get sleepy at all. I almost never eat lunch at work anymore because when I do, I go down for a nap. It’s a direct causal relationship, or at the very least I can’t find any other reason for it. Lots of people have weird quirks to their biology. Probably most of us.

Its most likely just my parasympathetic nervous system (responsible for the “rest and digest” calming reflex) goes into overdrive that time of day because I tend to have a lot of energy to burn between waking and noon, and eating tells my body it can rest by stimulating the vagus nerve. Not worth doing further digging, no.

Picking apart my diet and habits to try and find a cause for this that agrees with your prior hypothesis is… umm…

Its always been like this, like I said, regardless of how the reat of my diet and day are structured, its just a thing my body does.

Literally any food does it. Doesn’t matter what it is or how much. Its just having anything in my belly around noon makes me sleepy as hell.

In my case, if I eat around noon, I have to take a nap around 1, I just get super sleepy after lunch and will nod off whether I want to or not, even standing up. Always have. I’m probably meant to be somewhere that does siestas. I do well in heat, too.

If I don’t have food it doesn’t happen, so it’s definitely the food and not my sleep.