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If I don't eat regularly... like go for more than 4 hours without eating... I sometimes get really light headed. Just had it happen at work and thought I was going to feint.
Anyone else experience this sort of thing?
When I'm dehydrated I get the same thing if I stand too quickly.
Yeah, you need sugar and water in your blood, it's that simple.
It happens at the point I start eating... first mouthfull of food and whoooahh..
Stay off the hash cookies?
Dehydration will be linked to blood pressure - less water= less volume of fluid in your veins which means when you stand it can all rush to your feet.
When you start eating, maybe you get a blood rush to your stomach (it kinda makes sense in my head), hence leaving you light-headed? Advice from my GP was to flex my pelvic floor muscles or thighs when feeling light-headed, to get the blood flowing a bit better.
* faint
Unless of course you fence or fight at work in which case feint away to your opponents
Sounds volumetric after shunt of blood to GIT - meal expection can also cause this.
Look up postprandial hypotension. See your GP if it persists.
Can be low blood sugar but this tends to happen when you havent eaten for ages....and from the title of this thread you state it happens when eating, blood does flow to the stomach when eating....obviously this takes blood from elsewhere....most likely a vasovagal response though, one of the DRs on here will explain it better than me but basically the vagus nerve controls intestinal peristalsis (the movement of the gut that moves food along it) but when the vagus nerve is stimulated it has an effect on the heart in slowing it down, this can reduce blood pressure and make you feel faint....its more complicated than that but thats my understanding, i usually come across it in the elderly.
10-15 explosive Burpees before you start to eat,
And 2-3 explosive burps afterwards.