Has anyone had any experience with eating bananas before bedtime?  I have heard the high amounts of serotonin leads to better sleep.
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♡I have occasionally eaten a banana with a glass of milk before bedtime and found that I fell asleep faster. It usually takes me a forever to fall asleep. I think you have to find the food (or solution) that works best for YOU. I've read that you can eat foods in the evening that bring on sleep. There are even foods you should avoid, I've heard. Read on:\n\n"In the evening, eat turkey, bananas, figs, dates, yogurt, milk, tuna and whole grain crackers with nut butters. These foods are high in tryptophan, which promotes sleep. Sometimes eating half a grapefruit at bedtime can help. Keep a food/sleep diary and identify which of these helps you. For sure avoid bacon, cheese, sausage, spinach, tomatoes and wine close to bedtime. These foods contain tyramine, which increases the release of norepinephrine, a brain stimulant."♡\n\nTake a look at this site, it offers some interesting information on sleep and insomnia. Look at the Herbs that could help too. Hope it helps!
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People tell me tomato juice and celery. I drink coffee with coffee syrup in it and half and half. I think that it may be the combination of caffeine, dairy, and sugar that does it for me. I do not eat breakfast most days. I even know how to get motivated on graveyard shift (currently working nights). I turn up the music while I am in the shower and take really long and hot showers. Most people will say that I am usually a happy person:)
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what time do you go to bed? Maybe you're not getitng enough sleep; most people need about 7 hours. Do you get any exercise? That might help. It may also be what you eat; are you eating a good healthy breakfast, and a decent lunch? Plenty of fruit, not too many carbs?
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Don’t watch TV or even so much as look at a computer screen atleast 30 minutes before you lie down. The light from both a television as well as a computer monitor mimic the same intensity of light as sunlight. This fools your body and brain into thinking it’s nowhere near time for sleep.\n\nDrink milk. Milk has an amino acid in it called Tryptophan that increase the levels of serotonin and/or melatonin in the brain which slow down brain activity. It’s science folks.\n\nGo to bed when you are tired. Different strokes for different folks here. Just because your wife goes to bed at 9PM doesn’t mean you are ready. You might only require seven and half hours of sleep while she might require ten. If you aren’t tired, do something low-key until you are, like read a book, play solitaire (NOT on your computer), or play with some legos.\n\nReserve the bed for bed things (ie sleep and sex). I for one don’t strictly follow this rule as I’ll read some before I go to sleep, but for some people this is a must.\n\nMeditate. No, don’t cross your legs and hum, but focus on relaxing…if that makes sense. Take deep, long breaths. Tense each muscle one at a time from head to toe. Focusing on doing this takes your mind off of other things and you’ll be in lala land in no time.\n\nExcercise during the day. I emphasize during the day. Excercising at night just gets everything going instead of shutting down for sleep. But excercising during the day tires the muscles out and makes for a solid nights sleep.\n\nThese are the majority of the things I have either tried or actually do routinely. What are some things that have worked for you?
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A diet high in tyramine could do the trick but I'm worried about the potential side-effects.\n\nTyramine displaces monoamines from nerve terminals. Serotonin (5-hydroxytryptamine) is one of these. However, so are dopamine and nor-adrenaline. Nor-adrenaline is responsible for the regulation of blood pressure among other things.\n\nTyramine can be found in mature cheeses, red wine, game and in massive quantities in Bovril and Marmite.\n\nWhilst a diet rich in these foodstuffs might raise your 5-HT levels it would almost certainly have an effect (if indeed it would in the first place) on DA and NA levels. This could cause high blood pressure and insomnia.
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I stop eating anything and just sip either coke or ginger ale. Just a little at a time. Don't resume eating until you've felt better 10 to 12 hours and then eat light. You could try the BRAT diet.\nB=banana\nR=rice\nA=applesauce\nT=toast (dry)
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Yes its been proven that banana's help lower blood pressure along with a no salt diet and if you become a veggie and avoid all animal products and sugars you will notice a big change in your health.
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try eating bananas. they have pottassium in them
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If you are suffering from mild depression you can take 5-HTP, which would help your body produce more serotonin naturally without any side effects, it is a herbal supplement.  FYI, melatonin would not help in this situtation, since melatonin is converted in the body from serotonin and it does not produce serotonin.\n\nhttp://lookup.herballoveshop.com/search?q=5-htp&site=my_collection&client=my_collection&proxystylesheet=my_collection&output=xml_no_dtd&filter=p&getfields=PID.price.ProductImage.Rating.description.mytitle.details
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Hi, Do not drink anything with caffeine in it after 2pm.  Eat dinner as early as you can, at least 4-5 hours prior to bedtime.  Take a hot relaxing bath just before going to bed.  Do not watch TV in bed.  It helps sometimes to read after getting in bed.  If I have real insomnia, where I don't fall asleep in 15 minutes, I start with my toes, and I say, "My toes are going to sleep."  I then say the same thing for every part of my body, working from the toes up to my head.  I have never gotten all the way to head without falling asleep.  I don't know why it works, but it does.  Hopefully, these tips will help you.  I too am against taking sleeping medication.  Good Luck
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Don't drink caffeine after 3:00 p.m.\nDon't excercise within 2 hours before going to bed.\nTake a warm bath about 45 min. before going to bed.\nKeep your bedroom at a comfortable temperature- esp. not too hot, around 72-74 degrees is good.\nNo light in room, not even a nightlight or light from alarm clock, esp. don't get up after dozing off and turn a light on, interferes with melatonin production and throws your body clock off.\nTry a sound machine or fan- something with a soothing "white noise" type of sound.\nEat a turkey sandwich or warm milk before going to bed, helps your body produce tryphtotonin and serotonin.\nTry Valerin root and 2mg.melatonin\nDo deep breathing and guided imagery meditation before bedtime.
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bananas have energy..get some engergy bars.  coffee!
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I would try a magnesium supplement at night.  Magnesium is a relaxant - it stops muscle spasms and tossing and turning.  It has helped me a great deal.  It's also very low in our normal diets and so it helps to balance other major blood minerals, including calcium and potassium.
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I had to look back at what the others were saying. I looked everything up in my books again to make sure it was right before I put it down.\n   Tryptophan is not a sleep inducing drug in turkey but a derivative of broccoli and corn that was found by Dr. Ray Sahelian M.D. The chemical 5-Hydroxy-tryptophan s erotonin is actually a sleep enhancement not to make you sleepy. So if you eat enough turkey you should be running around in circles\n\n   Actually if you eat enough of everything your eating enough carbohydrates and fats, sugars, to induce your body to be working overtime, it's working more than it has all year. Your bound to be sleepy.
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I have asked this question of every professional I have encountered.  I can't get an answer from anyone that makes sense.  Normally, I get the "deer caught in the headlights" look when ever I ask.\n\nI am one who suffers with the dawn effect.  It really upsets me to wake up with higher sugar than when I go to bed.  I think what is happening is the body sees the glucose level drop in the predawn hours and it converts something into glucose.  It keeps right on making sugar until you wake up.  I have tried a couple of experiments including setting my alarm for 3:00 AM and testing. In me it seems to give credence to my theory.  Additionally I have eaten a small piece of dark chocolate before bedtime.  I do mean a piece, not three pounds.  Dark chocolate is supposed to help with insulin usage.  The dark chocolate also seems to help me.  \n\nI am going to put the question on my watch list.  Hope we can both get a good answer.
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Before you go in to work eat a meal with a lot of protein and fiber - avoid carbs - pastas and such.. the sugar will burn fast and you will feel tired.  Proteins and fiber take longer to digest and give you more fuel to work on.  Caffeine, if you aren't adverse to that, for a quick pick up about half way through the shift.  I worked third shift 7 years and being on 24 hr call I still occasionally work an overnighter.  Good Luck.
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Potassium always helped me.. you need to eat bananas :D