Question by imsosick_90: How do i get to sleep with out using sleeping pills?
okay I have a hard time getting to sleep, like if im really tired it takes my hours to fall asleep.
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Answer by Am I. Incognito
A glass or two of wine usually does the trick for me.
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Try having a drink or two, red wine usually tires me out pretty good.
NewsTarget.com printable article
Originally published October 19 2004
I have sleeping problems, are there any herbs or foods that help with insomnia?
by Mike Adams
A reader asks, “Are there any foods, vitamins, herbs, etc, that can help with insomnia? I’ve had sleeping problems for years, and I would really appreciate any kind of useful information.”
With insomnia, it all basically boils down to endocrine system imbalances. Sleep is a physiological function that is controlled by hormones, and these hormones are of course released by endocrine system glands according to a natural cycle. A person who is having trouble sleeping is merely experiencing a disruption in this natural cycle.
To answer this question, it is helpful to look at what promotes healthy sleep cycles in the first place. Perhaps the single most important influencing factor in setting these cycles is exposure to natural sunlight. In fact, simply getting natural sunlight during the day often corrects the problem outright. I know it sounds simple, but exposure to sunlight is fundamental to healthy sleep cycles.
A lot of this, of course, has to do with the production and suppression of melatonin, which is also called the sleep hormone. Melatonin levels normally rise at night, and peak during sleep. Once a person wakes up and goes outside to get natural sunlight exposure, melatonin levels are suppressed. This tells the body that daylight is here, and that we should be awake and alert during the day.
But when a person avoids sunlight — if they have an office job and only get fluorescent light or other forms of artificial light during the day — these melatonin levels are not suppressed during the day. They remain unnaturally high, and this tells the body that it may still be night. This is why a lot of people tend to feel drowsy during the day or have a lack of energy, and subsequently, they can’t sleep at night either. It’s all due to the unnaturally high levels of melatonin during the day which cause unnaturally low levels at night time as well.
So once again, the most effective strategy is to get sunlight — to suppress those melatonin levels during the day and let them come back strong at night. If you live in a climate where you can’t get a lot of natural sunlight, you can help yourself through the use of light boxes. However, light boxes are not a replacement for natural sunlight. In fact, nothing comes close to the intensity of light you receive from the sun. Even high-powered light boxes only provide a fraction of the light energy of natural sunlight. So make sure you get natural sunlight on your skin. And by the way, getting it through a window is not the same as getting it outdoors. Windows filter out ultraviolet light, so you have to expose your skin to direct sunlight.
(This is why many of the kings and queens in European history went mad, by the way: they wanted to keep their skin pale by avoiding sunlight. Nearly all royals were chronically deficient in vitamin D — and that causes schizophrenia, depression, aggression and other mental disorders…)
There could be other problems causing insomnia as well. You might have low melatonin production. Maybe you’re getting sunlight during the day, but at night your body isn’t producing melatonin in the way that it should. A shortcut to solving this is to take melatonin supplements. These are available at health food stores or vitamin shops online. Melatonin supplements should be taken an hour or so before bedtime, and they will typically help people sleep more soundly.
But understand this is just a stop-gap measure. If your body isn’t producing melatonin, there’s something imbalanced in your system, and you need to get back to the fundamentals of health in order to recreate an environment in which your body will naturally produce the required levels of melatonin that support healthy, sound sleep.
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start watching tv alot before bed or reading whichever makes you sleepy, with a warm glass of milk. also staring at computer screen can do this.
5htp-at any health store . it helps your brain create serontonin found in turkey.
warm shower or bath.
i grab an old accounting text book, usually does the trick by the second page
I USE HARD WORK, BOOZE AND POT !!
play a lot of sport..each day..
i never really had a hard time falling a sleep but i hear warm milk helps
try meditation
or fully relaxation
your breathing would have a lot to do with and so would stress so chill out relax stop thinking! lol hard to do i know but if you practice mediation you’ll learn how to calm the mind and go to sleep!
best wishes!
You could try meditation, relaxation, reading a boring book on risk analysis for businesses, drinking chamomile tea and talking with a counselor to get some things out into the open that you may have repressed.
I usually listen to music in the background. Play it all night that way when you wake in the middle of the night, you can also get to sleep easier. Good luck.
Maybe you’re worried. Or ya might just think too much. I got the same ol problems. Just focus on nothing or take pills and see the doctor.
Read. take a warm bath and soak. Let to room be a lil cool. I eat a bake potato. Sounds funny but it helps me. I watched something that sometimes food can help. I tried a bake potato and i acually fell asleep.
Eliminate caffeine
count your sheep
Sometimes I drink a mug of ‘sleepytime’ tea, steeped 6-10 min.
I find it very effective, I also read a novel, article, etc to get drousy, AND when the mind is racing with thoughts,
A/ write them down, or B/ concentrate on counting backwards from 100, by twos or threes, repeating at 100 again if needed.
Have a set sleeping schedule, do not take naps during the day, exercise regularly. Do not eat or drink anything with caffeine, that includes chocolate. Do not exercise at least 60 minutes before you go to bed. My routine is I write in my journal and read the bible say a prayer on my knees (the knee thing I do for religious reasons, but it helps me to concentrate better on what I am saying as well). Make up your own special routine. Sometimes a warm bath just before bed really helps. Never take sleeping pills after midnight. I have insomnia usually because I am worried about something, try to figure out what is bothering you and write it down in your journal. I know that after not sleeping for 3 nights, that the 4th one usually will be a good nights sleep, when I do wake up in the night I read my scriptures, and try to get cold, then come back to my warm bed (I have a heating pad) and getting warm puts me back to sleep. But more than anything Journaling helps me the most. Turn off the TV at least 30 minutes before going to bed, then start your sleep routine, it can include calming slow beat music, or if you play a musical instrument do that. The text books say do not watch TV in your bedroom, or do too many other activities, so that you will be in the right state of mind when you go to bed.
try one of the following:
#1 have wild long sex…
#2 drink yourself to sleep, you can mix # 1 with it if you like
#3 use a hammer……