How this whole thing started:
Back in the 2010’s, I used to hang out on Narcolepsy forums and post my ideas. A student named Christina asked to write to me about dieting. She had noticed that we fell asleep after eating. And the gluten effect too. We were both amazed by how much better we felt when we didn’t eat at all.
We tried gluten free-ketogenic diets. It was
the first experiment. It was the first
biohack.
We went to conferences and watched people fall asleep after
eating. It wasn’t just us.
She went to grad school and became a metabolic
researcher. She’s a professor now. She studies orexin and intestines. In tiny little zebrafish guts.
She has just published a paper validating that first
hypothesis.
Orexinergic
responses to environmental stressors in the zebrafish gut
Basically: Orexin
levels increase during fasting. Orexin levels
decrease after eating And it occurs in the intestinal wall as well as the brain.
Cha Ching. Bravo. Way to go, Professor Graves!!
I’m glad I lived long enough to read that on the internet.
And see
it indexed in PubMed. That’s my freaky kind of fun.
