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Originally Posted by Moose72
Ingesting food before bed, so the blood sugar is normal to high, and then your blood sugar goes way down and your body then puts cortisol into the bloodstream in order to then raise blood sugar, and that wakes you up. Oh... and as long as there is cortisol in your system there is no possibility of sleep.
This is what my friend told me. No cereal before bed.
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Yes, when I followed the low-carb way of eating, I'd sleep through the night and wake up groggy. If I have a vegetarian (higher carb) meal at night, and/or have a sugary snack before bedtime, I'll wake up 3:30, 4:30.
That quoted message looks like something I wrote, except for the last sentence.