• April 25, 2024

How many times have you felt after an abundant and delicious sleep food , heaviness and little energy. This is just the product of the famous "Poor pork" or "Alkaline tide" , but, to what it is due ?, and, how can you fight it in this season?

Virginia Carmona Lara, nutrition specialist , explains that the "Poor pork" appears because of the excess baking soda in the blood . The effect can be maintained from five minutes to two hours.

When we eat, the stomach produces hydrochloric acid you need the production of baking soda . In order for the baking soda there must be an exchange of electrolytes from the blood to the stomach cells; this excess that passes into the blood is the alkaline tide, "says the expert.

Also, the Dr. Karla Guzmán Ruddoff notes that during digestion most of the blood circulating in the body is directed towards the vessels that irrigate the stomach and intestines, to carry out the absorption of nutrients. This causes the blood flow to decrease in the brain and in others organs .

Do not let it not take hold of you!

Both specialists agree that when ingestingfoods rich in sugar Y carbohydrates glucose increases in the blood, causing more production of tryptophan, an amino acid that is transformed into melatonin that is an inducer to sleep.

The effect may last from 5 minutes to 2 hours.