i think i'd be concerned for the reason of my disturbed sleep first. if it's hunger waking you, then i agree with the others about more fat, or maybe just more food during waking hours.

and then after eating in the middle of the night, you are able to just go right back to sleep? that baffles me, i'm very awake once i eat, but i know some people do great sleeping on a full tummy

is hunger what wakes you in the first place?

Well, it sounds like your adrenals are in pretty good shape.  Tell me about your exercise habits, though.  Jessica managed to accidentally stop her menstruation partly through doing too much exercise + work.   

 I think switching back to mostly animal fats might be a good experiment.

Do there appear to be any OTHER hormone-related issues going on, that have changed in roughly the same time frame as your menstruation stopping?  I know this is getting personal, but it's cause for concern.

i posted a personal topic, so all relevant, personal questions welcome.

i really cannot think of anything else going on. i really feel quite great these days. this diet is a large part of the journey, but of course there's more, and together, especially these last few months, i feel like me, myself and i are finally coming back to one   i'm happy, and i'm optimistic.

my winter exercise schedule is less than summer, but it's usually a yoga class 3-4 days per week and then something with weights/body weight stuff a couple times per week. nothing too intense there. my work is nothing arduous at all.

when you wrote hormones, it made me think of sunshine... i haven't seen any in months!  maybe i could get some sun, earth grounding, and more animal fats. i think that could be a good start.

does anyone know if/where to get these in usa?  i had them in uk, do the uk people, or anyone else,  eat them? i think they're really good tasting. easy way to eat the entire fish. i'm not finding them in usa, nor that anyone knows what i'm talking about.

ah, you are lucky, i think lamb organ mix would be very good!  our farmers market starts up again mid-April, so i'm looking forward to getting my organ mix again. i'm not sure if they have lamb, but now i'm going to ask 

troll, please watch your tone.  you can worship aajonous all you like. others may choose not to, and can still post here 

anyone have experience with this? advice on how to get back on track? i'm so frustrated 

i had cod with basil pesto too!

wondering what are people's thoughts on how to save money?  like how to actually save it without the government taking a cut? 

i did meat only for a while (about a year, but with some experimenting on occasion) because it was the only food i could tolerate.  when i ate like this my digestion was normal, but anything else and i was in pain, my colon spasming, and i'll spare the rest of details.  i agree with troll, and had found a way to enjoy organs too.  little by little i've been introducing more and more foods. i'm almost where i want to be, not quite yet though.

my experience with goat milk/goat milk kefir: i tried goat milk and did fine with it. i loved the calm i got from drinking warm milk.  i then tried kefir thinking that if raw milk was fine, then kefir would be even better.  what a disaster! i don't know why... maybe the acidity?... kefir is awful for me.   i still did well with raw milk though, but later on when i tried to increase the amount of milk, i didn't do so well :/    so i just stopped altogether.  the only reason i was drinking it is because i really enjoyed the calm of raw warm milk.  i must just like the opiates , and that would have kept me drinking it if it worked for me.  but i stopped rather quickly, i don't think it's a food for me.  that said, there are members here from time to time who get incredibly healing results with raw milk, so i think it's an individual thing. 

fermented cabbage to this day is not good for me. i love it!, but it goes right through me seemingly undigested.

raw butter was extremely healing at one point. it lost it's magic for some reason  

ground flax seeds are soothing to the intestines. i don't like the idea of eating nuts or seeds on any regular basis, but my body does so well that i eat a small amount a few times per week.  i'll stop as soon as my body doesn't need them anymore.  regular flax seeds have a laxative effect, but are also soothing.

honey depends on the brand, but i stopped eating it because it's too addictive for me.  i didn't notice any digestive benefits.

good luck!

do you really trust any cheese in a store to be truly raw? their definition of raw is unpasteurized. at least, i'm guessing that they boil the milk before adding cultures.  plus the added salt.  it's too much, and who knows what kind.

i really like sweetbreads!! i've never just taken a slice of pancreas, but i love the flavor it adds when ground with muscle meat.

in support of this, i posted a publication a while ago showing that a woman's brain tumor began to shrink while on a ketogenic diet, and started to grow again when carbs were re-introduced.

PP is the only other one to mention not getting any benefit from "high-meat".  Have you tried eating several big mouthfuls of "high-meat" per day? Also my own experience was that I only experienced the benefits of "high-meat" the next day after eating them - no idea why, but you shouldn't perhaps expect instant results.

not several big mouthfuls per day. i usually only eat at weekends. i can't tell if it's helping me or not though so i slack in preparing it.

You seem like a naturally cheery and content person Ioanna, it may be that people who's mood suffers more because of negative stimuli (processed foods, stress etc) notice more, the mood altering effects of high meat, due to the rule of relativity. The same way I don't really notice mood elevation from cannabis the way I used to when I was SAD because I'm so freaking happy all the time in spite of stimuli, thank you raw animal flesh. Just a possible theory, or could just be a variable built in biochemistry.

oh, that's a good point. if my mood were down, i might notice something more immediate. i'm kind of wired though, i was hoping for the 'high'     also i was hoping for improvement digestion wise. sometimes my abdomen still feels a bit bloated which i think is bad gut flora?  so i've been keeping carbs low again and eating aged or high meats to try to get the balance back.