Why does raw meat make me sleep better?

[Satya]

I would really like to know.  If I eat all raw one day, my sleep will be much deeper that same night.  Why is this?  I don't think it is necessarily the animal fat, because I get the same result whether I eat steak tartare with marrow, sashimi and avocado, or carpaccio with eggyolk and olive oil.  It is such a good thing, but I am curious about it.  Perhaps it is as simple as not requiring such a heavy digestion, and I do eat mainly at night.  Any other ideas? 

TIA.

[TylerDurden]

Well, I get a hangover effect after eating cooked, so  suspect it's just the toxins in cooked foods such as AGes/HCAs which are causing fatigue, just as the congeners/preservatives in alcohol cause the fatigue/hangover effect, to a greater extent than theactual ethanol.

[goodsamaritan]

Maybe because cooked food is harder and takes longer to digest?

[wodgina]

Yeah it is weird, I think you sleep better because there's less heating up and cooling down of body temp. I know this because when in the past I've drunk beer or eaten something wrong I would over heat and sleep lightly.

Now it's like I've been knocked out for 7 hours and wake up with no recollection of dreams or any memory of the the night just nothingness. Pretty crazy.
Sometimes I sleep 4 hours just wake up 3:30- 4 am to get some things done and work through they day with no probs.

I got up really early today and smashed out a 12km run and hit (my) gym before starting work at 7am (I've made my own garage gym setup the last week)

[reyyzl]

My sleep's better too.  I'd like the answer to this as well.  I also get better dreams.