Many people (including myself for years) ride two rollercoasters simultaneously all day, the sugar rollercoaster along with the caffeine rollercoaster. It's a wild ride, not one I wish to repeat. Often, they go together, as people jump on the caffeine rollercoater looking for a pick-me-up from the downs of the sugar rollercoaster. Here's how it goes:
1) Eat way too many carbs and way too little protein at a meal
2) Hyper - Blood sugar skyrockets (hyperglycemia) to unhealthy levels due to excess carbs, creating hyper-energy state
3) Crash - Since high blood sugar eventually spikes insulin, which takes sugar out of the blood sream, it is followed by a low blood sugar (hypoglycemic) crash; this up and down is the first rollercoaster. Further, eating too little protein results in insufficient secretion of glucagon hormone, which could have helped to mitigate the crash. Glucagon is the natural counter to insulin that sustains blood sugar levels even when insulin is high.
4) When fatigue from low blood sugar hits (dip in the sugar rollercoaster), reach for caffeine to "wake up" and get "energy" (begin caffeine rollercoaster). Caffeine stimulates your adrenal glands to produce adrenaline, giving an "adrenal high".
5) Crash again when the adrenaline from caffeine wears off in 4 hours, resulting in fatigue, irritability, headache, or confusion. Moreover, spiking adrenaline repeatedly through caffeine, day after day, leads to adrenal fatigue in the long term, a burnout of the adrenal glands, with its own constellation of symptoms (see article below)
Repeat cycle morning, afternoon, and evening.
The point: you don't have to ride either of these cycles. You aren't supposed to be tired after meals. Changing the type of food you eat by lowering carbs to a more reasonable amount and including more protein and fats will prevent the insulin spike that sets off this cycle.
The hidden dangers of caffeine: How coffee causes exhaustion, fatigue and addiction
http://www.naturalnews.com/012352.html
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