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WakeupDiet™.com: Tips

Not Just For Dieters. These simple coping tips will help anyone to improve alertness during the daytime. Think better and more clearly all day. You don't have to be a narcoleptic or jet lag sufferer. You don't even have to be on the Wakeup Diet™.

Tips, Daytime

  • Go for a walk in the sunlight: Zeitgeber.*

  • Snap awake: Walk barefoot on the basement floor.

  • In winter, go outside & pick up the newspaper.

  • Air conditioning: Yes!

  • Sing to songs on the radio. (In the car. Please, not in the office!)

  • When you cook, use plastic trays from prepared dinners to help you control portions.

  • Place a cold hand on the back of your hot neck (Narcolepsy acupressure point)

  • Fast for alertness at meetings, tests.

Improve Reading Comprehension

  • Speed-read, skipping sidebars.

  • Read with an ice pack on the back of the neck.

  • Read while pedaling a stationary bike.

  • Read while standing.


Celery & Okra Pickles

Photo: Okra Pickles by Talk O' Texas, jar with characteristic label
  • Celery Miracle. Narcolepsy produces a variety of unpleasant conditions, not just sleepiness! For occasional stomach discomfort, vertigo, headaches, and for better focus: Eat celery! One to three branches may be necessary. The leaves are the most potent part. Relief is usually fast, and lasting. Celery can also provide volume, and make you feel full.

 Photo: Celery
  • Okra Pickles. Benefit: Astonishingly, these also relieve narcolepsy's malaise (headache, stomach ache, brain fuzz, vertigo). Okra pickles are delicious, fun to chew, & tangy! (Not “hot” as the bottle claims.) Benefit: Temporary relief. Not as long-lasting as what celery provides. But you can eat another pickle later (up to two, in the webmaster's experience). Provides variety. Beware of the salt! Wash some of it off before eating.

*Terms

A zeitgeber (or time-giver) helps to set your circadian clock. In the brain, the seat of this clock is the suprachiasmatic nucleus (SCN). The SCN is part of the hypothalamus gland. Normally, the SCN receives light impulses from your optic nerves. These light impulses are cues (zeitgebers) that reset your body clock.

Zeitgebers function as regulators and synchronizers. Acting without zeitgebers, your clock would still operate, but would run slightly slowly. Your dayparts would lag behind those of your friends. With each passing day, you'd fall further behind.

While the circadian clock regulates your sleep load, the homeostatic clock sets your level of alertness. The homeostatic clock is another part of the hypothalamus gland.




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