Fast-5 Diet and Lifestyle: Re: [fast5] Re: sleep

Wednesday, May 13, 2009

Re: [fast5] Re: sleep

In my experience it goes away eventually. When you eat
starch it raises your serotonin levels, which make you sleepy.
Also when you aren't digesting food all the time, you don't
need as much sleep. Moving your eating time closer to
bed time might help, or taking a melatonin capsule. Vit C
before bedtime helps too (Vit C is an antihistamine, and
antihistamines make you sleepy). Wearing a sleep mask
helps amazingly too.

I had to move my eating window to EARLIER though, because
I started getting reflux if I went to sleep on a full stomach.
Old age, I guess. Now I just plain don't need as much
sleep, and 6 hours does it. I'm not tired though.

On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 4:49 AM, Cassie Luu <cdluu@yahoo.com> wrote:
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> for me at least, i'm pretty sure it's the fast-5. when i used to multi-day
> fast, it was the same thing - couldn't sleep at night. but everything went
> back to normal once i started eating again.
> if i'm going to be fasting as a lifestyle though, i don't want the negative
> side effect of losing sleep.
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> From: Rick Stewart <rstewart@iaff.org>
> To: fast5@yahoogroups.com
> Sent: Wednesday, May 13, 2009 7:43:19 AM
> Subject: [fast5] Re: sleep
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> So funny you mention this! I have been waking up at 4-5am every morning
> lately. I was attributing it to the sun coming up earlier. I wonder if F-5
> has anything to do with it?
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> -Rick Stewart
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> --- In fast5@yahoogroups. com, "cassie luu" <cdluu@...> wrote:
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>> hi everyone,
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>> i'm losing a lot of sleep (1.5-2 hours/night) on fast5. i think this maybe
>> why i haven't been able to do much cardio lately. also, i'm getting
>> headaches which i'm also contributing to the lack of sleep.
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>> has anyone experienced this? is there a solution? thanks.
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