Thu, Sep-21-17, 13:07
|
|
Senior Member
Posts: 15,075
|
|
Plan: mostly milkfat
Stats: 190/152.4/154
BF:
Progress: 104%
Location: Ontario
|
|
If the achiness is from exercise--I find active recovery is faster, if I do a lighter version of the exercise that got me in trouble in the first place, I'll feel better sooner.
The studies showing "carbs boost serotonin" are a bit faulty. The basic premise is that if you deplete the blood stream of other amino acids that compete with tryptophan to cross the blood brain barrier, you can jack up serotonin in the brain. It works, but basically by feeding subjects enough almost pure carbohydrate food to jack up insulin and deplete the blood of the non-tryptophan amino acids. I'd want to do a little more research before claiming that even this would work in a type II diabetic, or even somebody sufficiently insulin resistant. It's possible that it would take a much larger dose of carbohydrate to do the job, even if it did work.
https://www.psychologytoday.com/blo...s-keep-you-sane
Quote:
Without the extra tryptophan boost, as little as 4% of protein in the meal will eliminate the carbohydrate tryptophan-boosting effect. To put that amount of protein into perspective, potatoes, rice, chocolate, and flour all have too much protein for them to increase tryptophan entry into the brain. One has to eat pure starch (or a sugary drink) to achieve the pharmacologic carb-serotonin effect, long enough after a previous meal that no protein remains in the gut.
|
This may explain in part why candy can be so rewarding, but I don't think chasing temporary peaks in serotonin is a good idea. When I see people making claims about carbs for serotonin, I usually see potato, potato, potato, or other foods with significant amounts of protein, nobody suggesting feeding people the sugary, protein-free crap used in the original studies.
But for whatever reason--some people do get sort of wired on a ketogenic diet for a time and have trouble sleeping, I'm not sure anybody really knows why. Something I've found is that I seem to sleep better if I don't eat too late in the day. Melatonin does help as well. I don't take it every night, but if I wake up around 1 in the morning and can't get back to sleep I'll take some then.
|