Reasons why you shouldn't do strenuous exercise after a meal

Many people start to do strenuous exercise after meals, which is a huge stimulation to our stomach. We must avoid this situation in order to more effectively maintain our health. Strenuous exercise may affect our digestion and may also cause us various gastrointestinal diseases. Let us understand the reasons why we can't do strenuous exercise after meals.

1Digestive juice does not come out instantly, it takes a certain amount of time. Therefore, it is best to take a short break before eating to prepare for the secretion of sufficient digestive juices. In this way, the food will taste better and be easier to digest. After eating, the stomach is full and the stomach and intestines need to speed up digestion. The gastrointestinal tract needs blood to help it do these tasks and to "fuel" it, otherwise it won't be able to do the job well. If you engage in strenuous physical activity or intense mental work right after a meal, a large amount of blood in the body will rush to the muscles throughout the body or the brain, leaving less blood to help the gastrointestinal tract work. As a result, the gastrointestinal tract will not work effectively and food cannot be digested well. Over time, problems such as indigestion, bloating, and stomach pain will occur. Therefore, you should rest for a while before and after meals, especially do not do heavy work or read or write right after a meal. It is best to take a walk or do some light activities to better help the gastrointestinal tract digest food.

2. There should be a certain interval between exercise and meals. After eating, gastrointestinal activity increases, the secretion of digestive juices increases, and the amount of blood needed to digest food also increases. If you perform strenuous exercise immediately at this time, the regulation of nerves and humoral factors will inhibit gastrointestinal activity and the secretion of digestive juices, causing a relatively reduced blood supply to the gastrointestinal tract and more blood to be supplied to the motor organs, resulting in weakened gastrointestinal digestive function, which can easily cause gastrointestinal discomfort and pain, and even indigestion. Similarly, you should wait for a certain period of time before eating after exercise, because the center that manages muscle activity is in a highly excited state during exercise, and the digestive organs are inhibited. The activity of the digestive organs needs a certain amount of time to recover. Therefore, you generally do not want to eat immediately after long-term intense exercise. You should rest for about 30 minutes after exercise before eating.

Everyone has different reasons for not doing strenuous exercise after meals, and the harm of exercising after meals to each of us is also different, but we should try to avoid harm if we can. Try not to do some strenuous exercise after meals. You should rest for a while after meals to give your body a buffer period before doing some exercise.