Thread: WILD being easier with exercise?

I'm no expert in biology by any means, but it would make sense that it is this way. When you're overweight you tend to eat more than usual, so your body would divert bloodlow to your intestines to digest all that food, leaving you lightheaded and making it easier to pass out essentially.

Also, my dad is quite heavy and he can't sleep on his back any more because of it. I guess it has to do with all the fat on the stomache pressing down on the lungs, making it harder to breathe in that position, but I don't know for sure.

Anyway, congrats on your change, man

True. After eating you may feel sleepy.

From what i remember from the physiology i had it has to do, mostly, with the increase in bicarbonate due to the excessive necessity of production of acid in the stomach. This causes the leftover bicarbonate produced when making H+ in the parietal cells of stomach go to the blood and making it more alcaline.

That way a called "alcaline tide" is produced and the blood irrigates the central nervous system with an altered PH leading to sonolence.

The problems in sleep associated with obesity are related to the excessive fat around the airways which increases the effort made to keep them openin the supine position. That way, it becomes more difficult to keep them open and allow efficient breathing which may lead to obstructive sleep apnea. Some people may have to use a mask that changes the pressures on the airway allowing it to maintain its patency while sleeping and, this way, stopping the apnea.

Anyway, I'm glad you changed your life to the best xD. It's a decision that requires courage and effort so i give you my congratulations.

Exercising increases Serotonin in the brain which converts to melatonin while you sleep. It is near impossible to fall asleep when serotonin is very low. You need the melatonin. Having lower serotonin would affect your ability to fall back asleep once waking up which could have had an effect. It is considered essential for doing WILDs. I personally have found that if you are not sleepy enough it is really difficult to enter a deep trance. I have had problems with serotonin since I was 18. I have to take meds to sleep. Sunlight will also help increase your Serotonin.