If you are a “weird sleeper” THIS DISCUSSION IS FOR YOU!

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Good Morning myLot early birdies. Or night owls about to turn in for the day. Some very interesting news to share. Every Monday night, the Carnivore gang gets together and we talk about all kinds of weird stuff, we get some Carni-doctors in there as well. Last night, it was all about sleep. If you’re one of those people that happens to sleep for a few hours, then wakes up and feels like staying up, and then you go back to sleep for a few more hours, if you don’t have the perfect “8-hour sleep schedule” or “sleep hygiene” and all that BS.. well guess what. You might just be NORMAL. Back in the very early Paleolithic days, having a “bi-phasic” sleep schedule was the norm. They would sleep about 4-5 hrs, wake up, do some work for a few hours, even in the middle of the night, check for predators, check their young, cook food for the next day, go out and get food, etc. and then go back to sleep for another chunk of hours. I have slept this way my whole life. And I can’t even tell you how many doctors have told me to “change my ways” and start sleeping normally, like all thru the night. I can’t do it! I never could. These docs made me feel like a failure and a weirdo. And here’s where it gets exciting. Some people were actually born with more “primitive” genes than others. These are the folks that naturally love the bi-phasic way of sleeping/2 sleep cycles, sometimes they have abnormally longer arms than other people (I do) first noticed it in cheerleading when our coach made us stand in a straight line for a dance formation. My arms were almost a foot longer than all the other girls and yes I felt like a freak. Also, you might remember something called your first “meat bone” experience. It usually happens when you’re a young kid. For me, it was when we were at this fancy Italian restaurant and my dad handed me one of his bbq spare ribs. I was like a wild animal. I couldn’t stop ripping the meat off the bone and digging my teeth into it. My mom tried to take it away from me and I went kinda crazy. My dad had to give me another one just to shut me up. If you remember something like this ^^ or if you have the mega-long arms, if you’re constantly hyper vigilant, you sleep at all different times, or you look in the mirror and you seem to have some “Neanderthal” features that you just don’t like…quit being so hard on yourself. You’re just more primitive than others, and hey, nothin’ wrong with that. Probably why I feel so at home with the Carnivore tribe. (We’re not really a tribe.) Anyway, the one promise we all make to each other at the end of our meet-ups (we like to call them MEAT-ups) haha is that we will try to spread the word about what we learn from the Carnivore doctors. And not to push people into the Carnivore lifestyle, but to only quietly lead by example. So that’s what I’m doing here. Have a great day everyone