Why We Get Sleepy from Sugar

Am guessing about this entire process.

1. High-glycemic foods immediately turn into sugar in the stomach and get absorded directly into the blood stream without going into the intestines.

2. Sugar you are not using in the blood is bad, as I know from my diabetic ex-girlfriend. Too much sugar in the blood damages the capillaries leading to failure of everything.

3. Since sugar is bad, your body has to protect itself. If it detects a certain quantity of sugar in the blood it releases insulin to rush the sugar out of the blood into fat cells.

4. When you eat, your body releases insulin both for what it detects and for what it anticipates is coming.

5. Your body evolved before there was refined sugar. A small amount of refined sugar looks like a large amount of unrefined sugar. For example, one cookie might look like a lot of grapes. While the cookie releases all its sugar immediately. The grapes release the sugar over time. Your body thinks a lot more sugar is to come. So, it releases much more insulin than is needed for the one cookie.

6. The extra insulin removes all the sugar from your blood. You have a sugar crash and pass out, plus get fat.