Right! I'd often fall asleep about an hour after dinner (the biggest
meal). Can you tell me more about this? Who is Selye? I'm really
interested.
Thanks!
John Pavao
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>Speaking of heart and diet, I've noticed something. Before I switched
>(originally to Atkins, then to Neanderthin), I used to get really hot and
>my heart would race after eating some meals.
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>Is this common? Was I on the edge of more serious problems, or was it no
>big deal?
Your body was treating a food as if it were an emergency. Selye
got a
Nobel prize for describing the alarm reaction. What follows that is:
adaptation (chronic high bp), then finally exhaustion, (me).