WD and relaxation

[Guest guest]

I was reading the interview with Ori that posted a while back,

where Ori talks about the ancient warriors being in sympathetic mode during

the day ( " lean and mean " ). I wonder how this compares to the normal state

of hunter-gatherers.

I thought h-g's were generally in a parasympathetic state (relaxation)

unless they had to run from a tiger, and then the fight-or-flight

(sympathetic) response would kick in. And I thought that fight-or-flight

was *not* the normally dominant condition, only under unusual stress.. and

then after the threat or stressor is gone, a healthy body would dissipate

that energy and return to the normal relaxation state.

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.

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

before?

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.

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