Can't Sleep on Carnivore Diet | Insomnia on Carnivore Diet

#insomnia #carnivorediet

In today's video, I discuss my perspective on diet induced insomnia and why you cannot sleep on the carnivore diet.

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[BlueVelvetBear]

This is exactly what happened to me, I was great the first 3 weeks after switching from Keto to Carnivore... but week 4/5 I had awful insomnia and only managed 3hrs a night for the last 5 nights... and here I am searching for answers... it's important for us to warn others about this.

[fantasticprincipessa]

YES! sleeping 2 or 3 hours and waking up at 11:30, 1:00, 2:00 am since doing carnivore

[BangzHaus]

My mum raised us on meat only since we could eat solid food, not because she knew that a meat only life was good for us but because she didn't know how to cook 😂

Since the beginning of my memory I had insomnia before I even knew that there was a word called insomnia and before the term "Carnivore Diet" was invented.

As a kid I instinctively taught myself that if I kept my body still at night as though my body was in a full deep sleep, even though my mind was fully alert and awake, I would still feel like I had a full 8hrs sleep the next day.

I would literally look at what time I got on my bed and what time I'd get off my bed the next day.
I don't know why 8hrs was important to me back then (i started doing this when I was about 10yrs old) but that was the timeframe I intuitively came up with.

I woke up feeling like I had the best sleep ever (even though only body laid still for 8hrs, not my brain).

Years later I discovered the word meditation 🧘‍♀️ and realised, wow that's what I was doing all those sleepless nights ago.

39yrs later (I'm 49 now), after eating rubbish for decades, I've gone back to eating meat only (3 months so far) and the insomnia returned within the first few days.

Nowadays (nights actually) I lay sleepless on my bed thinking about me meditating myself to sleep as a kid not knowing that that's what I was doing when I was little.

I also think, I know what would knock me out cold if I really wanted to sleep heavy... eating rubbish (a "balanced diet", processed food, fast food etc) that will 100% put me in a food coma.

Or, I can just lay there like my kid-self and think about only one word... "black."
That was the one word I'd say to myself all night when I was little.

I came up with that word because that's all I could see with my eyeballs when my eyelids were closed.

I vividly remember seeing my eyelids as they were closed at nights, it was like they were curtains blocking out any light, then I would feel my body limp almost lifeless and I would listen to my pulse reverberate in my ears.
I heard the sound of me breathing, imagine listening to a sleeping baby breath, the blissful-ness of that sound.

8hrs later (or more) wallah just like magic, a fully energised me would hit the next day running.

Meditating for 8hrs everynight is amazing.

These nights I don't say "black" anymore, I say "dead", because that's how my body feels, lifeless, even though my mind is awake.

Try it, it'll change your life.

Stay carnivore
Meditate every night

I love you all ❤

[cammieklund]

Time did NOT fix the issue for me... I mustered through 9 MONTHS of severe insomnia and constantly running on stresshormones on carnivore and I literally thought I was about to die in the end bcs of the severe sleep deprivation and racing heart with arythmias and stabbing chest pain. I tried everything to fix it but nothing helped. I had to reintroduce carbs. And then after about a year I did 6 months again thinking that there must be something I could do and to just toughen it out but the same things happened and I had to give up after 6 months bcs it got really dangerous again. I had 4 carnivore coaches and I tried everything in my power to make it work. This has been THE most stressful thing I ever have been through and it will take time to recover. It's sad really, I so much wanted to reap the benefits that some get on carnivore...I recently have seen studies that say that hypothyroid people can have real difficulties with producing sufficient amounts of glucose from gluconeogenesis so that probably is the main reason why my body just can't be low carb. I used to think it was bcs of my oxalate toxicity issue, and I'm sure that's part of the problem, but I think the gluconeogenesis struggles is the major factor. The moment I added back carbs after months and months of agony my racing heart finally calmed down...

[tanyasydney]

Usually all it takes is about 4 oz of goat milk if I can't sleep, and before I know it, I'm soon back asleep.

[Carnivore_Resident]

I got the same issue and that's why im here to try things. Honestly not going back to carbs only for the few special occasions during the year. Will see what happens but I'm also dying from not sleeping well.

[xuezhaozheng]

Thank you!! Currently dealing with this!

[sadiej]

I’m suffering with it too since I started carnivore

[susanshaver]

1-Pure Sleep
2-Tart Cherry Juice
3-Tryptophan - coming from vegan diet
4-lukewarm water with Apple Cider Vinegar and honey (honey is definitely Not carnivore)
5-Vitamin B - organ meat

[jimmysmad]

I suffer from sleep on carnivore. Am thinking of having 30 grams of white rice just before bed. Apparently white rice is a clean carb

[benicio]

Oddly enough I’m having terrible insomnia for the first time in years and yet I’m extremely sleepy during the day. I feel unusually drowsy like I could sleep all day. It’s so frustrating that at night even my legs are restless.

[Shagley]

This is me exactly im not sleeping at all its so weird

[remixbaby]

When I heard it should take a few days to few weeks I was like no way. I'm 2 months in and still waking up! 🤔

[MoneyStrategiesSOULutions]

I sleep usually by 11 pm, and wake up around 4, and then again around 5:30 or 6:30 - but most often feel very tired during day. So what can that be?

[HealthME]

Try looking at the back of your eyelids… yes seriously. Count the sheep in the back of your eyelids.
Count backwards or pray. That usually knocks me out lol

[trumuse]

Try high fat, stop eating large protein portions, add magnesium and have some carbs.
Not a lot but just 1-3 servings of fruit, and maybe a starch like sweet potatoes if you’re not scared of the oxalates and pair it w some dairy for calcium to bind.

[janedoe]

I have been doing carnivore for 8 days, I wake up at 2 am wide awake.

[TheHypercarnivoreChef]

What I feel is like I'm in hunting mode, I sleep less because my body tells me the sun is rising ! go out to get meat, even a slight light In my room wakes me up

[jvlbme]

Hang in there! No matter how long you feel like crap on crapivore remember it's always broccoli's fault somehow. 🤗

[brandonpeniuk]

Hey I just found your video. I am sleeping about 6.5 hours a night with an hour 40 min in between. I am wired off the carnivore diet. However, my skin looks better and my organ trouble disappeared in 2 days.