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so I have a question for you are you finding that fasting is interfering with

your ability to sleep through the night now I’ve actually spent quite a bit of

time to try to find research on this point and all I could find is just a

very tiny bit of research in animal studies ok mice studies however I do know

quite a few people who have told me that their sleep is not as good when they’re

doing fasting this could be the reason right here so in the study energy

restriction was applied for 2 to 7 days 2 to 7 days of fasting and what they

found is that decrease is nocturnal that means at night secretion of melatonin

this is the hormone that helps you sleep by 20% so if you’re finding that when

you’re putting your pet mouse on a fasting program and they’re not sleeping

you want to do two things and I’m being very sarcastic you can actually apply

this to yourself as well you want to add MCT oil to your diet right before bed or

you can try this increase your carbohydrates to 50 grams and that

should help maybe add more berries something like that and you’ll find that

you’ll do a little bit better and the reason for that is that chances are you

have insulin resistance and it’s probably been there for a long time and

it’s gonna take a while for you to adapt you see what you have to realize is that

glucose is one fuel of the brain and so is ketones

the majority population has insulin resistance and it’s affecting their

cognitive function and we don’t know exactly but it it’s almost as if there’s

a the blood-brain barrier gets insulin resistance okay and what happens is that

the cells of the brain don’t get the glucose and so when you have an

Alzheimer’s patient what’s really happening with the neurons is it’s

starving of glucose and that’s what happens when you have insulin resistance

and guess what is in the brain you have the mechanism that control sleep it’s in

the front part of the hypothalamus it’s called this

super suprachiasmatic nucleus not that you need to know that but anything in the

brain is going to be affected when you have insulin resistance so what you’re

gonna find after you do keto and intermittent fasting

over a period of time the pineal cells will start adapting more and more and

your sleep will do better but in the process you may need to add some MCT oil

which will give the brain ketones and feed the pineal gland directly or you

can actually just increase your carbs a little bit more and see which one works

for you now if you haven’t seen my video on all the different ways to stimulate

melatonin that might be a good video to watch next I put it right here on the

screen and a link down below