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At university I used to intermittent fast as a side-effect of laziness to cook breakfast. Nowadays I've read the benefits of it and trying to replicate that bu

• wahern 6y ago
  Two of the most common culprits to rule out would be 1) caffeine withdrawal and 2) dehydration. People often don't drink as much, or not at all, when they're not eating, and many don't even realize it. When I work an all-nighter (36+ hours without sleep) I don't have much of an appetite the next day and so tend not to eat anything. Because I'm not eating I'm also not drinking much, which I like because I'm prone to slide into a salt+soda spiral. But if I don't force myself to drink fluids I often end up with a raging headache. I'm not much of a breakfast eater and during periods when I drink a lot of caffeinated soda I often get headaches from the caffeine withdrawal, especially on the weekends as I tend to only drink soda when working.
  • dvdkhlng 6y ago
    And don't forget that maybe more than 20% of the normal water intake are due to food, not just drinking [1], so if you eat less you need to compensate water intake accordingly. [1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5084017/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5084017/