Greetings,
You might be surprised to find out that there are things hiding everywhere which will harm your ability to fall asleep at night and to stay asleep until you need to wake up in the morning. This not only includes things that may be hiding in the food that you eat or the liquids that you drink, it may also be things that are hiding in the environment around us. Here are several different things that may be causing us to experience insomnia, many of which we may not even be aware of.
The most obvious of these would be chemicals that are hiding inside of the food that we eat. The type of food that we eat before we go to bed makes a lot of difference in how well we are going to be able to sleep at night. Although many of us may tend to eat ourselves into a coma in the evenings, this really is not a good thing for us to do. If we fill up on fast acting carbohydrates in the evenings, we are actually causing our pancreas to dump massive amounts of insulin into our bloodstream. This causes us to be lethargic and to fall asleep but eventually, it throws us into a tailspin that may cause insomnia.
Most of us are aware that caffeine is a stimulant but there may also be other stimulants that are in the food that we eat and the drinks that we drink. Sugar is a good example of this and although its effects may be somewhat short-lived, it is a stimulant nonetheless. Make sure that you are not eating or drinking in the sugar within a few hours of bedtime. This will help to even out your body chemistry and allow you to get a good nights sleep if this is the cause of your insomnia.
Finally, there may be some pollen that is hiding in your area or perhaps even on your body. Make sure that you shower before going to bed as this will help you to get a much better night’s sleep. You should also run a high quality air filter in your room to remove as much of the pollen as you possibly can. If the filter does happen to be a little bit noisy, it often simply turns into white noise so it will not keep you up at night.
Thomas “Trapper” Sherwood
“Give us seven minutes, and we’ll give you a good night’s sleep, GUARANTEED!”
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Very helpful post. Very clear commentary and suggested phrasing are most impressive, as are his and your generosity in sharing this explanation and example
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