India, April 21 -- After eating lunch, the drowsiness that follows is hard to subdue, with eyes almost closing and yawns cascading one after another. While some amount of tiredness is expected, is there any cause for concern- or is it normal? Or if there are any factors, because of your oversight, further intensifying the post 3 pm fatigue. ALSO READ: Sleeping late every night? Study says poor sleep makes your brain age faster

To understand what the 3 pm energy crash is, in a conversation with HT Lifestyle, Dr P Praveen Kumar Reddy, consultant physician at General Medicine, SRM Prime Hospital, Chennai, shared whether post-meal slump is normal.

Dr Reddy agreed that this slump is scientifically recognised, a slowdown in human alertness th...