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>don't eat before bed I've always wondered about this advice. I find it very difficult to fall asleep on an empty stomach. And even then I wake up much earlier

by vjk800 4y ago

>don't eat before bed I've always wondered about this advice. I find it very difficult to fall asleep on an empty stomach. And even then I wake up much earlier than usually and very hungry. Usually I try to eat something heavy about 3 hours before going to bed.

joveian 4y ago
IIRC multiple studies have found that eating a few hours before bed makes it easier to get to sleep. Avoiding eating 3 hours before bed is the advice I see about avoiding reflux (in addition to GERD reflux can go into the lungs and be less symptomatic).
- samstave 4y ago
  Hence 'SUPPER' <-- supper was always common, and typically (in my neck of the woods) "Dinner at ~4:30PM" or so. Dinner was if you had guests. --- I have two strong personal takeaways at this post: A) * I have long had sleep issues, with the jerks and what not (I have them literally every other day, to this day) * I recognize that many people ITT are high-IQ/thought-producing-workers * The fact that REM does a basic "mental-wash" over your cortex and brain in gen, thus to solidify (calcify) memories into system. Such that if you experience poor sleep - you have a poor memory. This is TRUE for me. B) * Diet is a huge factor. And intuitively enough, just yesterday I was feeling that my internal sodium/potassium pump was off... I could feel it. I eat a lot of bananas, but a close person to me is a Cellar Somm at TFL, who has 19,000 bottles of wine in the catalogue, and she constantly berates my poor memory ; but she literally eats a banana every single day on way to work, and has the ability to fall asleep in seconds, and when asleep - sleeps like a mummy. ALSO partakes in smoking pot - which is commonly referred to when talking about memory loss, but jer memory is impeccable even over a decade, the details she can recount... (Dont make a fool of yourself at TFL). The weird thing was I was literally thinking about the importance of the potassium sodium pump, and that I could feel an imbalance in my own body on such (my focus was on meditating on the health of my kidneys) but knowing that its also related to sleep and, more importantly for me, memory ; and the REM WASH - I am convinced this will be next step in restoring what was perviously a photographic memory when I was 15...

by vjk800 4y ago

joveian 4y ago

IIRC multiple studies have found that eating a few hours before bed makes it easier to get to sleep. Avoiding eating 3 hours before bed is the advice I see about avoiding reflux (in addition to GERD reflux can go into the lungs and be less symptomatic).

samstave 4y ago
Hence 'SUPPER' <-- supper was always common, and typically (in my neck of the woods) "Dinner at ~4:30PM" or so. Dinner was if you had guests. --- I have two strong personal takeaways at this post: A) * I have long had sleep issues, with the jerks and what not (I have them literally every other day, to this day) * I recognize that many people ITT are high-IQ/thought-producing-workers * The fact that REM does a basic "mental-wash" over your cortex and brain in gen, thus to solidify (calcify) memories into system. Such that if you experience poor sleep - you have a poor memory. This is TRUE for me. B) * Diet is a huge factor. And intuitively enough, just yesterday I was feeling that my internal sodium/potassium pump was off... I could feel it. I eat a lot of bananas, but a close person to me is a Cellar Somm at TFL, who has 19,000 bottles of wine in the catalogue, and she constantly berates my poor memory ; but she literally eats a banana every single day on way to work, and has the ability to fall asleep in seconds, and when asleep - sleeps like a mummy. ALSO partakes in smoking pot - which is commonly referred to when talking about memory loss, but jer memory is impeccable even over a decade, the details she can recount... (Dont make a fool of yourself at TFL). The weird thing was I was literally thinking about the importance of the potassium sodium pump, and that I could feel an imbalance in my own body on such (my focus was on meditating on the health of my kidneys) but knowing that its also related to sleep and, more importantly for me, memory ; and the REM WASH - I am convinced this will be next step in restoring what was perviously a photographic memory when I was 15...