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5 Tips From the Doctors on SUPER Sleep |
- Get some exercise each day. – especially resistance training. body-weight exercise and weight lifting can help build glycogen reserves which your body can feed on when you sleep allowing a deeper and longer sleep.
- Low blood sugar can disrupt sleep. Try seeing if a protein and healthy fat source helps you sleep better. Some examples are a hard boiled egg, nuts, turkey cold cuts with olives…what can you come up with? My husband, Dr. Phil’s favorite is 2 ounces of salmon or pickled herring – GROSS!
- Address Stress. handle your business! tie-up loose ends. meditate. Pray. get your head-space squared away. A restless mind stimulates your Sympathetic nervous system making it difficult to fall and stay asleep.
- Avoid caffeine in all of its’ forms. DUH! Some people are highly sensitive to caffeine while others can actually sleep after a cup of coffee. Remember that caffeine can have a 12 hour half-life and hangs around in your system for a while.
- Sleep in the darkest room possible and shut off the screens. Blue light (commonly emitted by cell phones, computers and most flat screens),or any light in your bedroom for that matter, keeps your brain awake – even if you appear to be sleeping.
There are lots more tips out there.
These are just 5 of the most common lifestyle tips that benefit our patients.
These are just 5 of the most common lifestyle tips that benefit our patients.
Here is a graph showing the process broken-down for
Non-Adaptive Stress Response and Insomnia
Non-Adaptive Stress Response and Insomnia
Check back tomorrow for our 3rd and final entry on our blog
in this Sleep & Insomnia Series, as we cover food & nutritional tips
and supplements to help you FALL asleep and STAY asleep naturally!
in this Sleep & Insomnia Series, as we cover food & nutritional tips
and supplements to help you FALL asleep and STAY asleep naturally!
