Finishing a substantial meal and immediately beginning a demanding workout can lead to an uncomfortable combination of nausea, abdominal pressure, cramping, and acid reflux.
Hunger can become strangely unreliable. Some people wake up with no interest in food, coast through the morning on coffee, forget lunch, and then feel ravenous after dinner.
Food is never just food. It arrives with a setting, a mood, a clock, a conversation, a memory, and sometimes a little pressure to eat what everyone else is eating.
The gut does some of its quietest work while the rest of the body is winding down. Long after the last bite of the day, the digestive tract is still sorting, signaling, cleaning, repairing, and preparing for the next cycle of food.
