Slowness when editing entities in NopCommerce 3.8

I'm running into slowness on the site when making edits to different entities in the system (mostly on Products, but Topics as well) - the site can take anywhere from 30sec-1min to save data, and can end up bogging down performance on the site as a whole.

I'm thinking it might be related to the database (maybe related to indexes) - anything I can check to see if that's the case?

Product has relations with so many tables. But topic doesn’t have like this. So index should not be the only issue here. You can ckeck event consumer implementations and cache management also.