Sleep – BJJ Caveman

The BJJ Caveman’s Random Reading: October 19, 2014

Posted on October 19, 2014October 20, 2014 by BJJ Caveman

This is a view from within one of the cavernous beer tents in Oktoberfest at Munich from my recent trip to Germany. They had some of the best tasting rotisserie chicken and beer that I’ve had… This was taken at around 10 am, and you can see that it’s pretty full. As the day progresses and gets later and later these tents really pack up… but no one seems to mind because the beer is flowing!

This episode of South Park has been making the rounds in the paleo-sphere, and I have to say I laughed out loud a couple times, especially when they go into the perils of gluten… and what it can make fly…
Another article about Lebron’s diet to go with the many others out there, only this one has pictures of his food!

The BJJ Caveman’s Random Reading: October 7, 2014

Posted on October 7, 2014October 9, 2014 by BJJ Caveman

The BJJ Cavewife and I just got back from a trip through Germany and Croatia that included a visit to Oktoberfest and Dubrovnik (pictured above). Needless to say, as with all of our recent trips, thoughts of macros and nutrition and nutrient timing all went out the window. If I saw something on the street or in a store or on a menu that piqued my interest, I went for it… Now we’re glad to be home and ready to start eating healthily again.

NPR wrote an enlightening piece about synthetic biology which is the next step beyond GMO, in which they take genes from a plant and introduce them into a yeast culture to produce products more efficiently than nature.

Athletic Greens Review

Posted on September 29, 2014December 29, 2016 by BJJ Caveman

Introduction

I first learned about Athletic Greens when I read the 4 Hour Body by Tim Ferriss. I remember being so pumped after reading that book that I wanted to try everything he talked about, and one supplement that came up again and again was Athletic Greens. Here are a few direct quotes from the book:

My favorite greens supplement, “Athletic Greens” (mentioned in the schedule) doesn’t contain caffeine but will also help.
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Prebiotics are fermentable substrates that help bacteria grow and thrive. In this category, I’ve experimented with organic inulin and fructo-oligosaccharides, commonly referred to as FOS.

Does the new iOS 8 grayscale feature for the iPhone use blue light?

Posted on September 26, 2014October 9, 2014 by BJJ Caveman

The BJJ Cavewife and I recently updated our iPhones to the newly released operating system, iOS 8. One of the features that I was excited to make use of was the ability to change the display to grayscale, eliminating all the colors except for black and white.

Since one of the main reasons to avoid electronic displays (TVs, iPhones, iPads, computers, etc.) before going to bed is because the blue light emitted from those displays trick your body into thinking that the sun is still out, and causes suppression of melatonin release (the main sleep hormone), I reasoned that if my display was only black and white, there wouldn’t be any blue light emitted to screw things up!… Read More

The BJJ Caveman’s Random Reading: September 24, 2014

Posted on September 24, 2014October 9, 2014 by BJJ Caveman

While I wasn’t planning on it… it seems that ‘sleep’ has emerged as a theme in the past couple posts and what I’ve found my attention wandering to in my free moments. Could be because I’m in the middle of a tough series of overnight shifts and am feeling tired and sleep deprived and just plain exhausted and enervated.

Robb Wolf wrote a post about how important sleep is, and how he thinks it’s more important than both diet and exercise… something I agree 100% with.

The BJJ Caveman Sleep Lab

Posted on September 18, 2014July 30, 2017 by BJJ Caveman

Over the past couple years, I’ve placed quite a bit of stress upon my circadian machinery, what with all the overnight shift work (either 7pm to 7am or 4pm to 4am) and all of the time spent traveling, that I’ve felt the need to explore supplemental support. These are the various supplements I’ve been experimenting with off and on.

Now I don’t take them all at once, and I don’t take any of them regularly, but I do have them in my toolbox. There are some that I’ve found more helpful than others and some that I’m still trying to decide whether or not I’ve just spent money on expensive urine. … Read More