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Are you still "doing CrossFit to an extreme degree?" I've found the biggest things causing waking in the middle of the night to be 1. running out of liver glycogen, 2. cortisol being too high, and 3. body temperature increasing too much too early. These factors can interact, obviously. Extreme CrossFit can lead to low night-time glycogen (your body releases liver glycogen for your muscles to use both during and after the workouts), high cortisol (lots of studies on intense exercise increasing cortisol), and potentially increased body temperature (if you are working out too late in the day).
No, he's taking a break from CF. Trying to heal. And you are right. I did all that too, quit 2 years ago. Now I "just" walk. No more puffiness, ravenous hunger, anxiety....better sleep, and my cycle returned. Took a while tho...
Were you able to go to that functional medicine doctor to get some tests like the ones I suggested?
Georgi was saying in a recent podcast, and I may have already mentioned this, my apologies, that as we age, our androgens cannot keep up and balance out high stress hormones produced alongside intense exercise. Stress must be managed and balanced with proper recovery so that sex hormones continue to be produced.
No, I pushed it back and will be traveling soon. I’m not sure I want to keep the appt. I have a feeling they will promote paleo/low carb plus a bunch of herbs/supplements. I’m not sure if it’s worth it.
Well thats understandable but what is worth getting is some basic bloodwork that would help you understand whats going on. When someone has problems like yours such as sleep disorder and akathisia, basic remedy for sleep really are barely going to work if at all. You need to get some tests to see if some basic issue is contributing to your symptoms. Just to reiterate what kind of tests you should get, you want to get CBC, iron panel, thyroid panel, CMP, plasma zinc, PTH. Anemia, iron deficiency (without anemia), hypothyroidism, hyperparathyroidism, are potential problems that you may have that will contribute to all your major symptoms. Chronic, intense exercise as well as restrictive eating are known to cause problems in these areas (thyroid, parathyroid, iron, anemia issues).
Yes, I agree. I will see about getting this done likely in March. Thanks for reiterating the tests.
I started taking DHEA a week ago, no other supps or meds. Not sure yet on the DHEA.
It's not necessary to give up coffee in your healing journey. I don't believe it is healthy to give up the things that you love on a deep level, especially something that brings you such joy in the mornings.
Have you tried supplements that support energy? Not as a cure for the nights but to help the days feel better while you wait to get labs and work out a strategy to address root causes. These days I quite often get 6 hrs sleep just because I don’t get to bed early enough
, and it’s not ideal but I don’t feel terrible. Possibilities would be B-vits (I’ve never found a well-balanced B complex- they all have too much B6 and B12, and I don’t tolerate the prosultiamine in ideallabs’ energin, so I get them individually) CoQ10 (high dose vit K2 mk4 is supposed to be as good but I don’t notice the same boost myself) perhaps a little Methylene blue (some people including myself don’t tolerate more than ~500mcg at a time due to the MAO-A inhibition). Adaptogens can also be helpful but people’s responses tend to be quite individual. My personal favourites are cordiceps and ginkgo for the day and schisandra in the eve (but not directly before bed).I turn it off at around 9pm every night.
