Does having an empty stomach influence your POIS symptoms?

[serotonergic]

I've noticed that my cognitive symptoms improve when my stomach is empty. 

[Prancer]

Yes, for me it does actually. It reduces the symptoms. Some of us, like GoingLessCrazy, have tried fasting with good results.

[b_jim]

For me, it's not really fasting. It's fasting carbohydrates.
So i will not vote to no cheat your survey.
The question I ask you is :
what is really influence your Pois ?
     - The fact to have en empty stomach ?
     - The quantity of insuline you release after meal during Pois ?

You can make tests :
1/ pure empty stomach
2/ low carbohydrate meal  (meat + vegetables )
3/ high carbohydrate meal (sugar, dairies, rice/bread....)

Anyway I'm happy to see some Poisers have found a link between digestive functions and Pois. When I wrote a topic called "post prandial inflammation" it was the same idea or close.

The release of insuline has a clear influence on dopamine and testosterone. (80g of glucose = -25 % of testosterone ! )

staypositive : yes, sugar is a form of carbohydrates. 

[staypositive]

Is it because carbohydrates contains sugar? Because I feel a lot worse when eating or drinking anything with sugar.

[Macster]

Definitely more lucid and strangely feel more energetic when skipping a meal.. Such a weird syndrome.. I still have difficulty understanding how all this is related.

Also, in my mind I haven't eaten all that much junk during my life and rarely eat dessert as I don't really like sugar.. So I doubt that I've done damage to my intestinal flora so much (but don't have much knowledge about this)

For the past month I've been living in Japan and eating the Japanese diet. It's full of fermented food (e.g. natto, miso) as well as omega 3s (e.g. fish)  and I've almost always felt much better after eating than usual. Since this was a trip for me I've abstained so as not to ruin everything. Even so, a week and a half ago I've had a nocturnal emission and the pois hit me real hard.. I felt as though all this attention to diet (which I've started at home as well but not as strictly as in Japan about 10 months ago)  hardly did a thing... I then skipped some meals (usually breakfast or lunch) and it seemed to help more.

It might be that the symptoms were weaker than usual but that I've had grown accustomed to feeling so well for some time  that I couldn't stand going back to pois..

[abnormal8340]

Hi all, for me too much fasting causes little more anxiety....... i just have to eat something (light food easily digestible one).
Moreever, when my pois is severe , i just eat like anything..... Even though I am not hungry...
I knew i am not hungry ... but still want something for  munching.....