Sleepy After Eating Eggs for Breakfast

Diet and Nutrition
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I was wondering if anyone would know the reason why having scrambled eggs for breakfast makes me really tired?

I have them with a small amount of milk and butter, thats it.

Would it be the trytophan in them or maybe I’m slightly intolerant?

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How many eggs are you eating and do you ever have them at a different time of the day? If so, when and does it make you tired then as well?

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It’s a bit strange. You have them without carbs?

Try these things:

  • Eat the exact same meal at a diffrent time. I.e. for lunch or supper. Does this have the same impact?

  • Eat a meal which does not contain eggs, but somewhat mimics the egg-breakfasts macronutrient profile. Try a protein shake with a relatively fast absorbed kind of protein (whey isolate). Does this leave you sleepy as well?

We’ll know more than. There are manifold possible reasons for your symptoms. I wouln’t even exclude that it’s caused by too little/no carbs in the morning. Tryptophan overselection (tryptophan concentrations in the blood have to be muuuuch higher than other amino acid titers) is improbable, but I wouldn’t exclude it without having your blood tested, or, at first, have you do the two “experiments” above.

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It’s probable that your blood sugar is elevated to a point that the insulin that’s secreted after the meal is overcompensating and removing too much glucose from your bloodstream causing a hypoglycemic state.Much like the crash you’ll experience after a sugar high.

EDIT: Just saw that you eat no carbs at breakfast. Eat carbs with them and see how ya feel.

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[quote]Goodfellow wrote:
I was wondering if anyone would know the reason why having scrambled eggs for breakfast makes me really tired?

I have them with a small amount of milk and butter, thats it.

Would it be the trytophan in them or maybe I’m slightly intolerant?[/quote]

I would guess mild allergy.

Go with the idea of eating the eggs on a different meal and assess your energy levels again about an hour or so.

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could have something due to the choline in the eggs as well. some people feel more alert, while others have the opposite effect…

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[quote]ahu2468 wrote:
Goodfellow wrote:
I was wondering if anyone would know the reason why having scrambled eggs for breakfast makes me really tired?

I have them with a small amount of milk and butter, thats it.

Would it be the trytophan in them or maybe I’m slightly intolerant?

I would guess mild allergy.

Go with the idea of eating the eggs on a different meal and assess your energy levels again about an hour or so. [/quote]

Do you have any idea what an allergy even is?

If the OP had a skin reaction or a respiratory complications, that would constitute a POSSIBLE allergy. Drowsiness is NOT usually a symptom of an allergy.

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[quote]PonceDeLeon wrote:
ahu2468 wrote:
Goodfellow wrote:
I was wondering if anyone would know the reason why having scrambled eggs for breakfast makes me really tired?

I have them with a small amount of milk and butter, thats it.

Would it be the trytophan in them or maybe I’m slightly intolerant?

I would guess mild allergy.

Go with the idea of eating the eggs on a different meal and assess your energy levels again about an hour or so.

Do you have any idea what an allergy even is?

If the OP had a skin reaction or a respiratory complications, that would constitute a POSSIBLE allergy. Drowsiness is NOT usually a symptom of an allergy.[/quote]

Forgive my ignorance as it was a slip-up in which I regurgitated something I read without critically thinking about it. I used the term “allergy” too loosely as a description of the OP’s symptoms as he does not indicate any sort of inflammatory response to the eggs.

What do you say that he is experiencing then Ponce?