Night Satiety
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I recently received a comment on my 2011 post High Satiety Paleo Friendly Foods? from Dawn: > Did you ever break the code on night eating? I also need food before bed and will still sometimes wind up...
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The Chattanooga ColPac is a Great Tool For Summer Sleep
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I moved at the end of April and my new place is much warmer and unfortunately for me this month, it does not have air conditioning. Seattle is having a bit of a heatwave right now. !heatwave 🥵 A...
Read more →My Grounding Device Experiment
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Back in April, Ben Greenfield did a podcast titled My New #1 Hack For Zapping Inflammation, Increasing Deep Sleep & Recovering Faster—Earthing (The Most Important Health Discovery Ever?). I've always...
Read more →Insomnia Continues and Two More Sleep Books
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Back in January, I posted some notes from the book Say Goodnight to Insomnia. I initially made progress with those techniques, but have had continued trouble sleeping this year. I'll do well for a...
Read more →Learning to Love My Oura Ring
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Back in September, I posted my initial thoughts of my Oura Ring. It was mixed and slightly negative. You can see the issues I had with the Oura in that post. I ended it with this statement: > I’m...
Read more →Say Goodnight to Insomnia Notes
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There have been three times in my life when I experienced the type of insomnia where I can't fall asleep. Around 2005, 2015, and this month. This month was by far the worst case. I have had struggles...
Read more →Oura Ring Sleep Tracker - 42 Day Review
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This summer I went looking for my next health challenge. After reading Super Human by Dave Asprey and listening to Peter Attia's Drive podcast, I decided to tackle improving my sleep quality. They...
Read more →Coffee and Health - Question the Hype
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Here on this blog I talk a lot about health and on my other (more popular) blog INeedCoffee, I publish content related to coffee. One might think that I would be a big cheerleader on the health...
Read more →TV Sleep Tip
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I wanted to share this tip I developed regarding watching TV at night and falling asleep. Some of us like to watch TV at the end of the day to relax before bed. But what relaxes us can also stimulate...
Read more →What I Learned From The Power of When
Earlier this year, I read the book The Power of When after hearing the author on a podcast interview. !Power of When The Power of When: Discover Your Chronotype--and the Best Time to Eat Lunch, Ask...
Read more →Stress and Low Body Fat Levels
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A year ago I posted How I Regained the Weight I Lost. There I speculated on what was my ideal weight. > If I were to ask my body what it believes my ideal weight is, I’d get different answers. My...
Read more →Better Sleep for the Too Early Riser
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I was recently asked about what tips I had for better sleep. Instead of responding directly to the email, I thought it might make for a good post where others could read and comment. Most of the...
Read more →The ROI of Quantified Self
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After being an early enthusiast of Quantified Self, I now consider myself to be a critic. My last post on the topic was Some Quantified Self Honesty. That was two months ago. In that post and the...
Read more →Have I Been Napping Wrong?
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I've always had trouble napping. I could be dead tired and in need of a nap, but I'll close my eyes and nothing will happen. Sometimes my mind will race. Sometimes it won't. I would say the odds of...
Read more →An Amazing "Back to Sleep" Hack
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Often when I'm reading a book I'll think "I should be taking notes", but then I don't and keep reading. When the book is over, a few core ideas with stick with me. And some get forgotten. There was a...
Read more →TV Says Sleep
Found this street art near the Space Needle. !tv-says-sleep
Read more →Gelatin Supplementation and Deep Sleep
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A month or so ago I stumbled across a recommendation for using gelatin supplementation to improve sleep quality. Specifically the theory was that gelatin could minimize early morning awakenings. This...
Read more →Maximizing Fat Loss with Exercise
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This is the 5th and final part of my series of posts on the role of exercise and fat loss. For the most part, I strongly believe that you lean out in the kitchen and not the gym. I think the role of...
Read more →My Chamomile Tea and Sleep Quality Experiment
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One of the most often things repeated about Chamomile Tea is that it improves sleep quality. For many people, this means being able to fall asleep faster. I wanted to test this assumption. For my...
Read more →Hunting Headaches - Side Sleep
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One of the jobs I had in college was loading trucks for UPS. It was the most exhausting job I've ever had. It made Army Basic Training seem like working at a library. One night I came home so worn...
Read more →Hunting Headaches - Shampoo Up My Nose
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It is time for a status report on my Hunting Headaches project. For the new readers, almost a year ago I started a quantified self project to track down the cause of my late night headaches. Many...
Read more →Long Days, Poor Sleep and Too Much Caffeine
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I have about 15 half-written blog posts in the queue right now. I'm not happy with any of them. The sun is rising at 5:10 AM in Seattle and not setting until after 9 PM. I have blackout drapes, but...
Read more →Fall Strategies For Nutrition and Fitness
My nutritional mentors all have variations on what they believe is the optimal diet. This leads to endless debates among people smarter than me. I have no desire to jump into those nutritional...
Read more →Turning Down the Lights
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The book Lights Out: Sleep, Sugar and Survival has already had an impact on me. The book helped me understand the connection between light and hormones. Artificial lighting has lengthened the day and...
Read more →Lights Out: Sleep, Sugar and Survival
In a recent podcast, paleo proponent Robb Wolf rattled off a list of books he recommended. This was mentioned. !Lights Out: Sleep, Sugar, and Survival Lights Out: Sleep, Sugar, and Survival by T. S....
Read more →Here Comes My Power Sleep?
The title of this book promised more than it delivered. !Power Sleep : The Revolutionary Program That Prepares Your Mind for Peak Performance Power Sleep: The Revolutionary Program That Prepares Your...
Read more →I Don't Like the Nightlife, I'd Rather be Lean
In the post I Don't Like the Nightlife, I confessed that I probably have the type of insomnia called early-morning awakening. > There is also a type of insomnia called early-morning awakening. It...
Read more →Not the Sleep I Was looking For
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I picked up a book recently that I thought would provide insight and tips on improving my sleep. I should have read the reviews a little closer. !Sleep Sleep by Carlos H. Schenck covers all the...
Read more →I Don't Like the Night Life
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The one thing I am most kidded about is my early bedtime. I have the sleep habits of a middle-schooler. On a typical night, I'll go to bed between 10 PM and 10:30 PM. Then I rise between 5:00 AM and...
Read more →Sleep and Other Updates
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Good news. I'm now sleeping a full 7-8 hours each night. A few nights ago I slept in until 7 AM, which worked out to 9 hours and 15 minutes. It has been years since I have slept in that late. 7 AM...
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