Re: WD and relaxation

[Guest guest]

>Wouldn't being sympathetic dominant for much of the day, as Ori describes,

>require pumping out a lot of stress hormones and lead to burnout? Being

>awake and aware and energized doesn't require being revved up-- the kind of

>relaxed awareness of a meditation practitioner, for example, allows for a

>sharp mental focus and relaxation simultaneously.

I think Ori really stresses the " warrior " part, partly as a writing style.

You need a gimmick to sell a book. Me, I'd call it the French

Riviera Diet and stress the " Doing good things during the day,

relaxing and feasting at night " .

His idea is that you should be READY to be revved up. That is, if you are

walking around in the woods, you are relaxed. If you get attacked, you

fight. Fighting is hard on a full stomach! Actually even walking is easier

if you don't have a full stomach.

>Do people on the WD feel greater relaxation during the day than they did

>before?

I don't feel as SLEEPY. I get anxious mainly when I eat wheat, and since I

dropped

it, I've been relaxed all the time. But I feel sharper during the day

now, more able to concentrate.

>I'm also wondering how eating a large meal at night changes all the

>metabolic processes that go on during the night; I thought the liver was

>supposed to rest during the night in order to regenerate, and that this was

>a fixed biorhythm that couldn't be shifted to another time of day.

Most animals sleep after a big meal, it seems the natural thing to do. I don't

know

what the liver is doing. It is likely changing modes from day to night though,

because at night it would be doing more digesting stuff and during the day it

would be doing more blood cleansing? I'm not sure though ... from my experience

I'm beginning to think the liver makes bile all day long and when you eat your

fatty meal at night the gall bladder dumps it out all at once (so saving up the

bile makes it easier to digest fats).

-- Heidi