I ate too much at night and felt stomach discomfort in the middle of the night

The stomach is one of the most important parts of our human body, because everything we eat every day must be digested by the stomach and finally excreted from the body through the intestines. With the change of the pace of life, people's living habits have changed a lot, so the chance of suffering from stomach problems is also increasing. Many people like to eat a lot at night, so they feel stomach discomfort when they go to bed in the middle of the night, which seriously affects their sleep. So what are the dangers of eating too much at night and feeling stomach discomfort in the long run?

The health experience of "eat well in the morning, eat enough at noon, and eat less at night" makes sense. However, many people in life inevitably go against this trend. For example, office workers have to go to work in the morning and have little time to spend on breakfast. They eat casually at noon in the company. Only when they come home at night do they have time to make a good dinner. This forms a long-term habit of eating the most and best at night. So, what are the dangers of eating too much at dinner?

The dangers of eating too much at night

Occasionally eating too much at night may only cause temporary discomfort, or affect your sleep that night and appetite the next morning, etc. It is not a big deal. However, if you eat too much or too full at night for a long time, it will cause great harm to your body. The details are as follows:

1. Eating too much at night affects your appetite in the morning

Eating too much at dinner will exceed the digestive capacity of the digestive function, and if you don’t exercise and fall asleep immediately, the food will not be completely digested and absorbed. Too much food residue in the digestive tract will lead to a loss of appetite in the morning, and you will eat a lot at noon, and thus, a vicious cycle will begin.

2. Eating too much at night can easily cause gastrointestinal diseases

Occasionally eating too much may not feel anything unusual, but if you often eat a lot at dinner every day, your digestive function will decline over time, gastrointestinal function will be impaired, and then cause gastrointestinal diseases, gastritis, gastric ulcers, enteritis, constipation, colorectal cancer, etc.

3. Eating too much at night can easily lead to vascular disease

A large amount of food residues retained in the large intestine will be decomposed by bacteria and produce many toxic and harmful substances. Among them, when protein is decomposed by bacteria, a substance called "phenol" will be produced. This substance will enter the human blood through the intestinal wall and make people prone to cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases.

4. Eating too much at night can easily lead to obesity

Our body is very smart. When it runs out of energy, it will convert the food we eat into energy. When it has enough energy, the body will automatically synthesize fat and store it under the skin, around the internal organs, in the abdominal cavity, etc., causing obesity, which can also cause many diseases.

5. Eating too much at night can easily induce pancreatitis

When food flows from the stomach into the duodenum, our pancreas secretes enzymes such as trypsin and pancreatic lipase (enzymes that digest and break down proteins and fats) to digest food. There is a tube connecting the small intestine and the pancreas so that the enzymes can enter the small intestine smoothly. There is a function at the exit of the small intestine that only allows enzymes to enter the small intestine and does not allow the chyme in the small intestine to flow into the tube and enter the pancreas.

However, due to eating too much, there are too many things in the small intestine, which will cause the function of allowing only input but not output to be lost. Then, various substances in the small intestine will flow into the pancreas, causing inflammation, and acute pancreatitis will occur. In severe cases, the patient may go into shock during sleep!