Intermittent Fasting + Sleep

Symptoms Physical
#1

I have slept very well for a full week now (began at around 6.5 hours a night, and up at 8 and 7 the past 2 nights), additionally, I had morning wood every single day. I was sleeping VERY POORLY for the month prior to that (0-4 hours a night) no morning wood ever. It is POSSIBLE that it’s completely coincidental, but this started immediately after I began intermittent fasting and going back to hardcore paleo. Timeline is as follows …

24 hr water fast, NO food + lots of water: Saturday: 3pm till ~2:30pm Last Sunday (this sucks, and leaves me feeling cranky and tired).

All other days of the week, do not eat any food outside of 12:00pm-8pm, and during that window eat as much as much meat, vegetables, and low carb berries (raspberry, blueberry, blackberries) as you want. My breakfast (at 12pm) everyday is 2 strips of bacon, 4 eggs, 5 sausages, and an avocado. Do not eat any weird processed food, or wheat / rice / oats / carbs of any kind really. NOTHING WEIRD, MEAT AND VEGES. NOTE: I workout 5 days a week and have for over a year, and I’m in very, very good physical shape; if you want to eat like this you should probably be exercising as well.

I began sleeping better immediately. There was only one time all week where falling asleep was a bit difficult (took ~1 hr), all other nights it takes like 10 mins. I still wake up a few times, but fallback asleep quickly and stay asleep for 2+ hours afterwards. I feel 100x better mentally already.

Again, it is possible that this is coincidence, but it seems to me that intermittent fasting + weekly 24 hour water fast has improved me sleep dramatically. If I was all of you, I would try it for a week, and if you don’t have dramatic improvement, forget it.

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#2

I live at 30ft elevation. I haven’t had a single natural good night sleep since I crashed. Yesterday I drove up to a resort with the family. It’s 7,000 ft elevation. For the first time I felt naturally sleepy. I fell asleep and stayed asleep for almost 10 hours. I didn’t eat a lot on the way and I skipped dinner. Not sure what contributed the most. I was afraid that I might have elevation sickness but the symptoms are similar to PFS so it’s hard to tell. Anyone else have this experience with elevation helping your sleep?

#3

i heard someguys experience relief when they get in plane.

#4

Just seems to have helped sleep only. I still feel strange as fuck. No hunger or joy feelings. This is intolerable.

#5

Intermittent fasting made a big difference for me too for sleep, night and morning woods, fatigue and other problems. I should also implement a 24-hour fast a week, I know it’s the effective way to go.

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