Can't sleep while fasting
I fast once a week to be healthy and improve performance. It is intermittent fasting (I restrict eating to a four hour window).
I have insomnia almost every time and a quick google search shows multiple forums with the same issue — but no resolution. I almost never have insomnia when I don't fast.
Is it ok to have insomnia, or is something else (eg. hormones out of whack) causing me to have insomnia when I fast?
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Oh never mind, I found an equivalent post on the cognitive science stackexchange.
cogsci.stackexchange.com/questions/5537/how-is-fasting-related-to-insomnia
I will try upping the caloric intake and eating more veggies in the 4 hour window on my fast day (and taking magnesium, thanks s3v3ns).
If intermittent fasting gives you insomnia, the way to solve that is to stop intermittent fasting. The lack of sleep will do more damage to your health, performance and overall well-being than the intermittent fasting would help those things. Find some other way of achieving your goals.
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