Co2 boner vs nitric oxide boner
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I have noticed I am more likely to wake up with morning wood after suboptimal sleep, as in less than 6hrs. The bodies preferred vasodilator is Co2, could it be possible that this phenomenon is caused by a stress response that releases nitric oxide?
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@Lukey
Do you have any other symptoms after a longer sleep? I.e., raised bpm or sweaty palms?It may be that you may have enough glycogen (optimal metabolic state) for 6hrs, but after that adrenaline and cortisol kick in and lower testosterone, CO2, etc.
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@Kvirion not that I have noticed but will be more mindful
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@Lukey OK!
More info just in case...
“Eating salty food around bedtime usually has a sleep-inducing effect, and it helps to maintain blood volume (which tends to decrease during the night), and to restrain the nocturnal rise of aldosterone, and other indicators of stress or inflammation.” ~Ray Peathttps://raypeat.com/articles/articles/hot-flashes-energy-aging.shtml "One of the things progesterone does is to stabilize blood sugar. In one experiment, hot flashes were found to be increased by lowering blood sugar and decreased by moderately increasing blood sugar (Dormire and Reame, 2003). Hypoglycemia increases brain hormones, corticotropin releases hormones, CRH (Widmaier, et al., 1988), which increases ACTH and cortisol. CRH causes vasodilation (Clifton, et al., 2005), and is more active in the presence of estrogen. Menopausal women are more responsive to its effects, and those with the most severe hot flushes are the most responsive (Yakubo, et al., 1990). | The first reaction to a decrease of blood glucose, at least in healthy individuals, is to increase the activity of the sympathetic nervous system, with an increase of adrenaline, which causes the liver to release glucose from its glycogen stores. The effect of adrenaline on the liver is very quick, but adrenaline also acts on the brain, stimulating CRH, which causes the pituitary to secrete ACTH, which stimulates the adrenal cortex to release cortisol, which by various means causes blood sugar to increase, consequently causing the sympathetic nervous activity to decrease. Even when the liver's glycogen stores are adequate, the system cycles rhythmically, usually repeating about every 90 minutes throughout the day." | Increasing evening’s sugar and protein intake.
Blood sugar being too low sets off hot flashes in men and women. Snack more. If you feel lightheaded, you know it is coming. The quote from Ray Peat explains what is going on. Low thyroid, rising cortisol, all of it is caused by too few calories and the response that occurs in the body to head off the disaster of lowering blood sugar. The only way to head off low blood sugar is to eat. If you are getting these reactions, you are not eating enough. Every day it has happened is a day your brain did not like your too low energy intake. The brain decides what our blood sugar should be on any given day. We are less resilient to other stressors in our life, even our own negative thoughts, if our body is already trying to cope with the number one stressor... too few calories. | Enough salt & carbohydrates and testosterone should help with this… Hot flashes happen when your body temp is starting to go down. That can be caused by your glycogen stores being low/exhausted, blood sugar reduced, body secreting adrenaline —> CRH to produce glucose from body tissues. Older bodies are less efficient at supplying glucose to tissues. Older livers are less robust at producing glucose on demand. Estrogen helps the body adapt to lower body temps… Answer: Eat well during the day, especially early in the day; enough before bed or when you wake up in the night. Advice from haidut & Ray Peat: taurine & fructose (or fruit juices like apples that contain mostly fructose).
Haidut: The methods for increasing glycogen storage depend very much on the specific organism/person, but if you are interested in trying some new things the first option I would suggest is to get some pure fructose (or fruit juices like apples that contain mostly fructose) and use that as your primary source of sugar for several days. Fructose is supposed to be particularly good at building up glycogen storage. | On the supplement side, taurine is supposed to help with that, but the dose varies wildly from person to person for optimal effects. So, you have to try to find out what works for you. Typically, effective doses are 2g-5g a day. | Another supplement that Peat wrote about is uridine. Read The Problem of Alzheimer's Disease as a clue to Immortality Part 1 | Finally, if you are interested in trying drugs (after consulting with your doctor of course) an older antihistamine and anti-acid drug famotidine (Pepcid) is exceptionally good at inhibiting glycogen breakdown and promoting the synthesis of new glycogen. It is worth noting that famotidine is unique in its glycogen effects among the anti-acid drugs and unlike other drugs it has no known interaction with any other drug or any known effects on liver health or metabolizing abilities. So, you could use that while loading up on sugar. Famotidine has been found to be helpful for several conditions completely unrelated to stomach acid such as schizophrenia and PTSD. A probable explanation of those benefits would be due to the drug improving glycogen storage/usage and thus improving brain energetic profile. Here is one study for famotidine and glycogen.
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This is where the peat observations get a bit quackery for me..there isn't any means for the body to use CO2 to gain an erection. It is always nitric oxide. CO2 i think can be used for cerebral vasodilation which might explain why for some people who bag breathe it can relieve migraines, if the migraines are caused by constriction of blood vessels in the skull, but there isn't a mechanism i am aware of where the soft tissue in the penis can use CO2 to induce an erection. It has no effect on PDE5 and does not induce cGMP. That is all nitric oxide
I can't be alone in thinking this as proponents of the bioenergetic approach like Hans Amato also promote nitric oxide in relation to sexual function
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@CurmudgeonApple idk how to attach image but a study said “ Another mechanism which causes penile erection is through cyclic adenosine monophosphate pathway (cAMP). Corporal smooth muscle relaxation is meciated via cAMP. The activated membrane-bound adenylyl cyclase, which generates CAMP, it activates protein kinase A and to a lesser extent, protein kinase G. Prostagladin Es also increases the intracellular concentrations of cAMP in the corpus cavernosum smooth muscle cells. The generation of cAMP activates the Ca* pump and consequently, the level of free cytoplasmic Ca* is reduced, resulting in smooth muscle relaxation. Similarly, the protein kinase activates the cell-membrane Ca?* pump, leading to a decreased sarcoplasmic Ca?+ concentration which induces a loss of contractile tone of the penile smooth muscle and increase of blood flow in the cavernous body resulting in erection.”
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@Lukey interesting
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@NiggerGenocider okay you convinced me
