Andrew Huberman· PhD
In all seriousness, low carbohydrate/fasted/ketogenic diets tend to lend themselves toward wakefulness by way of increasing epinephrin, norepinephrine, adrenaline dopamine, and things of that sort.
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The evidence is convergent. Multiple independent sources reach the same conclusion, the underlying mechanism is well-characterized, and even the field's most cautious voices treat it as worth doing.
In all seriousness, low carbohydrate/fasted/ketogenic diets tend to lend themselves toward wakefulness by way of increasing epinephrin, norepinephrine, adrenaline dopamine, and things of that sort.
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So, I don't mind that people do this, but one problem is when people are following ketogenic diets all the way through to sleep and they have trouble with sleep or they're doing long bouts of fasting and they're having trouble falling asleep. That makes sense. It's because their autonomic arousal is tilted towards epinephrine release, norepinephrine release, and dopamine release.
the whole sympathetic nervous system and everything gets revved up right noradrenaline and all that stuff gets revved up and a lot of people actually sleeping
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