I've been P-eating for almost five months now and although my health has gotten better in many ways, I'm starting to wonder if my problems now are rather because of a lack of stress hormones.
During the day I feel all tired and sluggish and then later in the evening/at night I seem to get a high cortisol response (feeling alert, vasodilation, extremities getting warm etc) - the result being very poor sleep and need of hypnotics. In fact poor sleep seem to be my biggest problem right now, for example I tried a heavy dose of Xanax one night and I woke up feeling more refreshed than ever.
I've always had messed up circadian rhythm and the only thing that ever helped was ramping up cortisol and catecholamines during the day, done by staying active, working out and getting light exposure early in the morning, using stimulants and eating a paleoish/primal diet. Now, this created a bunch of problems so I won't go back to that.
However, I wonder if I should try to change my eating pattern, for example by consuming most of my protein in the morning and most of my carbs later at night.
I guess ramping up my metabolism even further during the night might help, but what I'm doing right now barely helps at all (before bed I take some cytomel and cynomel, have some milk with salt and gelatin before bed and let some incandescent lamps shine on my feet).
Anyone has got any ideas??
During the day I feel all tired and sluggish and then later in the evening/at night I seem to get a high cortisol response (feeling alert, vasodilation, extremities getting warm etc) - the result being very poor sleep and need of hypnotics. In fact poor sleep seem to be my biggest problem right now, for example I tried a heavy dose of Xanax one night and I woke up feeling more refreshed than ever.
I've always had messed up circadian rhythm and the only thing that ever helped was ramping up cortisol and catecholamines during the day, done by staying active, working out and getting light exposure early in the morning, using stimulants and eating a paleoish/primal diet. Now, this created a bunch of problems so I won't go back to that.
However, I wonder if I should try to change my eating pattern, for example by consuming most of my protein in the morning and most of my carbs later at night.
I guess ramping up my metabolism even further during the night might help, but what I'm doing right now barely helps at all (before bed I take some cytomel and cynomel, have some milk with salt and gelatin before bed and let some incandescent lamps shine on my feet).
Anyone has got any ideas??