What Happens When You Eat and Go instantly to bed to sleep

Have you ever tried to sleep after eating a heavy meal, and you can just feel the food in your stomach sitting there making all sorts of quirky noises?

The first and most obvious point is that there’s food in your belly that needs to be digested. But it feels like the two go hand in hand – what’s the first thing you want to do after eating a huge meal? Lay down and rest
However, even though it may feel appropriate to rest after eating, that’s a big no-no for your body.

The problem with eating after sleeping is that your body is most comfortable digesting food in an upright position, allowing it to absorb food easily.

So unless you catch yourself standing up like a horse, sleeping after eating is going to muddle with the digestion process which can lead to many digestive diseases.

In general, going to bed right after eating can lead to heartburn, otherwise known as gastroesophageal reflux disease. Upon swallowing, food goes into the stomach after traveling through the esophagus. The connection between esophagus and stomach is not something that opens and closes only when you swallow. Gravity helps keep food in your stomach when you swallow, but for some people there is a tendency for food to 'reflux' out of the stomach into the lower part of the esophagus. As you can imagine, if you lay down immediately after a large meal, gravity is no longer helping your food move in the right direction and you can increase your chance of reflux. While heartburn symptoms can be painful and disturb sleep, the bigger problem with gastric reflux disease over a long period of time is that it can lead to changes in the esophagus that greatly increase a person's risk of developing esophageal cancer.

Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease (GERD)
With improper digestions comes diseases like Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease (GERD), a fancy name for when the stuff inside your stomach comes back up into your esophagus, which allows stomach acid to come up and create that burning sensation that you may have experienced in your throat.

The bottom line is that sleeping after eating causes digestive problems because you’re not in an upright position which is the preferred way for your body to digest food. If you continually sleep after eating, it can possibly lead to a number of digestive diseases.

Stroke
Going to sleep right after a meal can increase your chances of having a stroke, according to a study, which focused on 500 healthy people -- 250 who had previously experienced strokes and 250 who were diagnosed with acute coronary syndrome -- found that those who waited the longest between eating and sleeping were at the lowest risk for stroke. Theories differ as to why, but they include the idea that acid reflux is more likely to cause sleep apnea, which is linked to strokes. Another theory is that the act of digestion and its effects on your blood pressure, blood-sugar levels and cholesterol count may affect your likelihood of having a stroke.