I Know Why You CAN'T SLEEP.
In a Nutshell
Waking at 2-3 a.m. on a carnivore/low-carb diet often signals healthy biphasic sleep or issues like cortisol spikes from low daytime fat (eat more fat, especially 80/20 meats and butter before bed), inflammation from inflammatory meats like grain-fed chicken, caffeine sensitivity (cut off by noon or quit), electrolyte deficiencies (salt food with sea salt for magnesium/sodium/potassium), overheating (cool room to 66-67°F, quality cooling mattress), disrupted circadian rhythm (morning sunlight, no screens 2+ hours before bed), or chronic stress. Prioritize fat-heavy meals, electrolytes, optimal sleep environment, and stress reduction to stay asleep despite modern schedules. Deep sleep drives health, immunity, and longevity—dial it in for superhuman results.
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We spend nearly one-third of our lives laying in bed sleeping or trying to sleep. On average, that's 25 years of your life that you're in bed. If something is going wrong and you're not getting that deep regenerative sleep, it matters and it's important. In this video, eight reasons why you may wake up at 2 or 3:00 in the morning and can't fall back asleep, plus what to do about it. Stay tuned till the very end for two bonus reasons that other people aren't talking about.
For all of mankind, for as long as we've been breathing air and drinking water until only recently, just a fraction of recent time, we were biphasic sleepers. We would sleep for several hours, naturally wake up for an hour or two, and then go back to bed. You can take comfort in knowing that since the start of time we were biphasic sleepers. If you wake up at 2 or 3:00 in the morning, it's probably because you're pretty darn healthy. It's probably because you've returned to a proper human diet and your body is reverting back to what your ancestors used to do, what they used to eat and how they used to sleep. Times have changed. We don't have the luxury of waking up at 3:00 in the morning and not falling back asleep when we have to get up, get the kids ready for school, and go to work.
Reason number one you're waking up at 3 in the morning is your cortisol is spiking. When you go on a low carb or proper human diet, things shift. You have less glucose stored and in the middle of the night you may run out of glucose storage and your cortisol will spike to enact gluconeogenesis to create glucose from protein, which will often wake you up.
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