I think many of us use food to sedate, not only at night, but during the day also.  So, with me,  it's a balancing act of looking what's underneath the craving and truly feeding myself.  An egg yolk in the middle of the night always puts me back to sleep.  But, for me, eating and then going to sleep doesn't allow complete digestion.  Everyone is different.  So, more and more I have learned to self sooth myself, thus avoiding the addiction that eating maintains.  Interestingly, most of the times I wake up after self soothing,  I am not really hungry at all.  But in general,  I would look to fats, rather than sugars, or bread, to put you back to sleep.

I had adrenal burnout which did not improve under the primal Diet.

If you have adrenal fatigue, then I should mention that raw dairy is absolutely deadly for people with adrenal-related issues, as they very often also  have some sort of food-intolerance towards dairy, whether raw or pasteurised.

The veggie-juice is also another issue with the primal Diet. Many people have complained about the fact that juicing veg makes not only the nutrients in the veg more bioavailable but the antinutrients as well, resulting in increasing ill-health. Vggie-jucie is simply nto a natural food, and won't help much.


What you need to get hold of is to ditch the bread(like cooked food and dairy, grains contain addictive opioids) and get hold of  raw fatty (grassfed organic meats). it's also vital that you get raw adrenals and raw thyroid(after all like cures like, so if you have heart-disease buy high quality raw hearts from organic-raised 100% grassfed cattle etc.). I don't know of any farms selling the stuff, but Dr Ron's website sells raw(well, freeze-dried) adrenal and thyroid in capsule form(just open the capsule and swallow the powder minus the capsule - the gelatin hinders absoprption of nutrients):-

http://www.drrons.com/

(Dr Ron's is the only company selling decent adrenal supplements. All other companies I know of seem to use magnesium stearate as a filler for their capsules, and magnesium stearate is a trans-fat which blocks absoprtion by a considerable amount.

It's very easy to get addictions to things as those with adrenal-related issues often have a need to get some form of stimulation in order to get their wrecked adrenals working again.

Dr Ron's isn't really a supplement, IMO, but a raw(well, freeze-dried) food. Of course, if you can get hold of the "real thing" from farms that would likely be better.

I'm not clear, you're saying that the raw milk consumption was or was not linked to the fatigue/cravings?

Folow your instincts, for now and drink the raw dairy. I should mention, though, that in those early days when I as doing the primal diet,  I experienced an energy-rush for half an hour after drinking raw dairy, but would, in an overall sense, have considerable fatigue after that period. Same goes for raw eggs and veggie-juice. I'd get a rush of energy in the short-term after consuming them, but, in the long term, they were not as helpful as raw meats.