Sleep help?!


Question:

Sleep help?

What is your bedtime routine, and how do you fall asleep when you have trouble?


Answers:

1) No sleeping pills (they will make you groggy the next day), if you must take something to help you sleep try melatonin, a natural hormone you secrete at night (the reason why we are sleepy at night). It is sold OTC where the vitamins are. Take a low dose, either 0.3mg or cut the pill in half, one half hour before you sleep. Also, sleep MD helps me to sleep, it has melatonin also but with a mixture of other natural sleep herbs.

2) Make your room totally dark when you will be sleeping, you can buy extra thick shades that will do the trick (melatonin is inhibited by light). Also, keep the lights low at night so that your natural secretion of melatonin will help you feel sleepy and this will relax you.

3) Consistently get the bright light at the same time each day, or if you have a bright fluorescent light, sit in front of it for as long as you can in the morning. This is called light therapy, it will help set your circadian rhythm and helps depression. If you dont have a light, make sure your outside in the sun, if not iin the morning, maybe during your lunchtime?

4) NO alcohol, at all, it actually inhibits sleep and also, No caffeine after the first few hours you are awake.

5) Make sure your stomach is full when you go to sleep A nice full stomach will help you sleep, just dont drink too many fluids or you will have to get up to use the bathroom.

6) Use earplugs, they really helped me!

7) Write down all your worries or your to do list for the next day before you go to sleep, and forget about that and all of your problems-easier said than done, but try it.

If you are still losing sleep, see your doctor, it may be you actually have a sleep problem and they can perform a sleep study .

Source(s):
I've done sleep research




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