How Many Hrs Sleep Do You Get A Night, & Has It Changed?

[Bluebell]

How many hours of sleep do you get a night?

And has it changed since starting the Peat diet, and/or since starting thyroid supplement/medication?

I used to be able to sleep about 8-9 hours a night, and felt best when I did.

Now, since on Peat/thyroid, I am sleeping more like 6-7 hours. I naturally wake up after a this smaller amount of sleep, and it seems to be all I need.

It's quite a big difference for me, after a lifetime of the 8-9 hour ideal time.

I expect that euthyroid people would sleep fewer hours than hypothyroid people (not that I am "euthyroid", but it seems my thyroid is happier these days).

 

[Peata]

I could have written what you did, Bluebell. I used to be able to outsleep my teenager, and that's just not right, lol. I kept waiting to "grow out of it", where you hear as people get older they need less sleep. It didn't help that I seemed to naturally want to stay up well after midnight.

I notice since really getting into the Peat stuff that I seem to be able to get sleepy earlier and wake up earlier naturally, ready to start the day. It's a new thing for me at age 39, that's for sure.

 

[Bluebell]

Thanks, that is so nice to hear someone else got these effects too.

It was quite a noticeable big difference for me. I simply need less sleep now, I still often go to bed too late but then I wake up at a reasonable time anyway. This only happened since peating/thyroid.

 

[Peata]

Yeah, I still "fight" sleep too much for my own good and want to stay up late on the computer or reading. But if I apply myself, lol, I can actually get to sleep before midnight. And yet if I do go to bed late, I can still wake up kinda early and not be fatigued all day. It's nice to need less sleep and feel alert and fine all day.

 

[leonardo]

I slept somewhat late last night and am up early this morning after about 7 hours of sleep. This may also be related to my reducing the amount of exercise since getting on to a ray peat inspired protocol. Also, taking a bit of royal jelly and this seems to cause me to sleep less.

 

[AlexanderCPPR]

9 hours, each night.

 

[Beastmode]

Amount of sleep hasn't really changed consistently for me, but my ability to fall asleep is massively different now. Used to take me an hour as far back as I can recall (I'm 40 now) and since "Peating" consistently, it typically takes under 20 minutes.

 

[opethfeldt]

I sleep 8.5 hours or so if not woken with an alarm. My sleep quantity hasn't changed since I began peating but my sleep quality has improved. Still wake up at least once per night, however. I haven't been able to find a solution for this that works long term. Cypro helped at first but quickly stopped.

 

[Broken man]

Gaba and DHEA for good dreams!!!

 

[GreekDemiGod]

If I go clubbing late into the night, I'll only sleep for like 4-5 hours, then I'll wake up.
Generally, I need at least 8h30 to function ok.
Last 2 nights, I took 100mg of Aspirin before bed. Slept 10hrs and 9hrs respectively.

 

[AlexanderCPPR]

Aspirin for what ?

 

[TheBeard]

Average of 7.

Before antibiotics I would sleep 12h and feel completely exhausted.
Now I'm ok with 7, feel optimal at 9 and rarely push it past 9.

Pre-antibiotics, the nights where I would get only 4hours sleep during traveling I would feel horribly sick and a walking dead, now after 4h I feel tired but I can push through