I’ve finally isolated that I have a mild hypoglycemia, which I’ve had for many, many years - probably since my late 20’s. Around 2018 ish, mid 30’s, when I became homeless, I started having really bad moods in the morning, and I now finally link that with how my breakfast eating patterns changed. In a state of poverty with less choice over my eating habits, I embraced intermittent fasting, finding hunger would not be an issue for hours and a morning coffee would sustain me. Because it appeared the coffee was lifting my mood to some extent from this bad mood, I didn’t realize that the lack of morning carbs was the missing link and reason the mood would come up before the coffee. For this issue, a good breakfast and certain schedule of protein , fats and carbs will create healthy mood cycles into the next day. I realize previous to 2018 I always used to eat a big bowl of oats and fried apples for breakfast - not much protein, but a little, and now I recognize that was why I didn’t suffer with this problem. Increasingly in my 20’s I noticed that smoking marijuana was completely impossible to enjoy, and this was my first hint that blood sugar modulations (which cannabis causes) were causing anxiety because of something like this, but I could see I didn’t have diabetes and so I was confused — not understanding hypoglycemia. I figured it out now because intuitively I started eating Vega for protein first thing in the morning and noticed a dramatic improvement, which caused me to research. I’m now adding some carbs to this and we’ll see how this unfolds, with blood sugar monitoring now.
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