Sleep

For many years now, I have slept 5 hours a night. It started when I got Lyme and has continued ever since. I can get up to 6 hours of sleep a night if I supplement with copper and iodine, but the effects seem to be short lived. It lasts for a few days and then the benefits seem to wear off.

I've decided to go in a new direction and eat organ meat twice a week. I don't like liver so I've chosen to eat chicken gizzards and hearts. I like them better fried and I know that's not the most healthy, but I don't eat many omega 6 fatty acids so I figure I can handle it only twice a week. Time will tell. I did not eat much meat at all this week except for the gizzards.

With my Fitbit, I can track sleep patterns and I'm usually just under or just over 5 hours. Six hours would be a good night. This week (after eating gizzards 3 days apart), my fit bit shows I've slept over 7 hours 4 out of 6 nights. I have done nothing different other than what I ate. My opinion is that there is something else in organ meat other than copper and iodine that is helping me. I would guess it is some type of trace mineral like chromium or perhaps a transporter protein for copper or something similar. Whatever it is, it seems to help. My mind doesn't race at all when laying in bed like has for years. I'm only one week into this experiment, but I have noted some pretty big improvements.

My question to all of you, do you eat organ meat? Are you sick enough to try it? Maybe it can help?

Interesting. I've slept better since I started taking magnesium malate in the evening. Sometimes I take my adrenal support too if life has been difficult.

Very interesting about the organ meat, Georgia Hunter. So happy for you that you found something that works!

I've been very fortunate with not really having any sleep issues as far as these infections are concerned.

If anything, my sleep quality has consistently been tied to my thyroid levels. If my levels are good for me, I sleep through the night or wake once for the bathroom. If my thyroid is too low, I wake more often during the night and sometimes multiple times.

I recently added 1000mg glycine at bedtime and find that I sleep a solid 7-8 hrs before waking to use the bathroom.

MarielS, what is your source for organic whey protein from grass fed cows?

GH, I don't take whey protein. But my husband does. He's a sports addict...
I keep a close eye on what he buys, cause if he'd listen to his sport's mates, he'd buy anything. I choose organic and no artificial sweeteners, only Stevia.
We get it at a local shop here in Belgium (jar is in the car, car is with husband at work). But I heard about Vital Whey, The Organic Protein Company and a Dutch firm called Ekopura.

I think this must have been a question for LymePickle cause he was writing about whey protein?

Thanks for the links. I'm contemplating modifying my physique but I think that I am getting too old and lazy. I need something productive to do with my free time other than read and hunt.