If you’ve read this blog for a while you’ll know that I have a circadian rhythm disorder called  Non-24, and couldn’t get regular sleep for roug

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2024-11-19 15:00:04

If you’ve read this blog for a while you’ll know that I have a circadian rhythm disorder called Non-24, and couldn’t get regular sleep for roughly the first 30 years of my life.

Non-24 is basically constant jet lag: your inner clock travels around the world at around 1 timezone per day, no matter where you are. You might be on Tokyo time while living in the U.S., waking up and getting tired at crazy times of the day. A week later, you’re on Hawaii time. Another week later, Central Time.

It is very socially inconvenient, to say the least. I’ve had this since before I can remember. There are anecdotes about 3 year old me playing in the backyard at 3am, in total darkness.

Around 9 years ago I tried keto for weight loss reasons, and my Non-24 went into remission within days. Since then I’ve done pretty strict keto. And keto reliably put my Non-24 into remission this entire time.

During those 9 years I ran a handful of experiments, introducing carbs again. Like clockwork, my Non-24 began rearing its ugly head every time, usually after around 3 days. I would wake up later and later, get tired later and later. The first few days you can ignore it and pretend it’s some sort of outlier or fluke. And then you wake up around lunchtime and go to bed just before sunrise, and you realize “Oh dang, it’s back.”

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