Michele (Los Angeles, California) on 06/13/2024
MARY (ARCADIA, CA) on 05/22/2024
When I could not sleep, my mom would make this for me. Enjoy. Here is the recipe
OATMEAL DRINK
Ingredients
⢠½ cup ground rolled oats or oat flour
⢠3 cups unsweetened almond milk or milk
⢠1 cinnamon stick
⢠â
cup brown sugar or 2 oz Piloncillo or Turbinado more according to taste
⢠¼ teaspoon vanilla extract
Instructions
1. Grind the oats in a blender or small food processor until it reaches a thick flour consistency.
½ cup ground rolled oats
2. In a small pot, add all ingredients and bring to a soft boil
3 cups unsweetened almond milk, 1 cinnamon stick, â cup brown sugar or 2 oz Piloncillo, ¼ teaspoon vanilla extract
3. Lower the heat and simmer for 10 minutes, stirring often making sure the milk does not boil over.
4. Remove from heat and serve hot in mugs.
Cindy (Illinois, USA) on 04/13/2024
Along with the sleep issue, I've come across reports of linen pillow cases doing tremendous things for other issues before but, apparently linen sheets, pajamas and other clothing are useful for all sorts of issues.
I was looking at this because I got some new yoga pants for sleeping and was having "bursitis" (undiagnosed) pains in my thighs and someone suggested wearing my old pj pants, instead. So, last night, I slept in my old pj pants and NO PAIN!
I've always known of the magical properties of linen and that it can prevent bedsores but NEVER heard of it helping with so many things like this. But it actually makes sense, just due to the electromagnetic "frequency" of linen but still, WOW! I've always said linen was like a "mother", providing precisely what's needed to stay either warm or cool, as opposed to cotton, but apparently it does much more than that.
Clatterbuck (Maryland) on 02/24/2024
1. Iron supplementation. I don't take it every day because too much iron is dangerous but I have noticed I am able to get back to sleep more easily after I have taken iron that morning.
2. Calcium supplementation. I take one capsule at bedtime, the dosage is three capsules a day. I also don't take too much of this supplement. It is my understanding that taking too much calcium at one time can cause problems because your body can't absorb too much at a time. Calcium makes me sleepy and doesn't cause loose bowels.
4. Colostrum. I take one capsule at bedtime. I just started taking this and it seems to keep me asleep for a full 7 hours with no waking up to go to the bathroom.
5. Here is a crazy thing that also seems to work for me; eating coconut at bedtime. I will eat a small chocolate covered coconut candy at bedtime and it seems to make me sleep really well.
6. I also recently tried a product that contains both magnesium and L-theanine. It worked great but gave me diarrhea so I had to give it up.
I don't know if any of these remedies will help anyone else, but they are all worth a try.
Ted (Melbourne ) on 02/20/2024
brad (Ontario) on 11/09/2023
Raphael (TX) on 10/31/2023
I had tried Glycine, Mg Glycinate, Theanine, GABA, Inositol, and they don't seems to help my sleep one way or the others. Finally as my last resort, I looked what else I have in the cabinet, I got Taurine which is for my brain fog and L-Glutamine for my leaky guts. Last night I took both before going to bed, my sleep lasted like 12 hours. I did woke 1 time for pee-pee. I have tinnitus long time but it gets louder after I had COVID-19 2 months ago, that may be the culprit bothering my sleep. I am sure to try this combo again tonight.
Gary (Oregon, US) on 04/05/2015
Inositol has changed my life for the better, or should I say the Best.
Clatterbuck (Beltsville, Md) on 04/01/2023
Clatterbuck (Beltsville, Md) on 03/22/2023
Brad (Ontario) on 01/23/2023
Brad (Ontario) on 12/08/2022
Brad (Ontario) on 11/26/2022
Mister (EUSSR) on 11/18/2022
Maureen (MD) on 11/13/2022
I've posted before regarding insomnia cures, but I have a new one I'd like to share. My sleep has improved dramatically since I started taking calcium/magnesium supplements at night and increasing the amount of potassium I consume each day. I accidentally discovered another tool to add to my arsenal of sleeping enhancements, bone broth. I've been trying to lose weight and have been increasing the amount of water and other low calorie liquids I consume during the day. I decided to try bone broth since it's low calorie and I like chicken soup. I drank a cup of warmed up chicken bone broth one afternoon and shortly thereafter fell asleep on the couch. I felt like I'd been drugged but I didn't think it was caused by the bone broth. A couple of days later I drank a cup after dinner because I was still hungry, once again I fell asleep. Now I was intrigued so I started drinking a cup about a half an hour before bed. Man, I fall asleep almost instantly and have slept through the night several times (which rarely happens since I've gotten older.) I don't know if this will work for everyone but it couldn't hurt to give it a try.
Brad (Cobourg, Ontario) on 11/02/2022
Take B complex vitamins to help with insomnia. Sleep disturbances can be the result of B vitamin deficiency. B vitamins are really good for stress relief, too. I take a quality brand from Genestra that has all the B vitamins and find I sleep better when I take it during the day.
When I stop taking the B vitamins the sleep problems seems to return, hope this helps.
Thomas L. (Tucson, AZ) on 10/30/2022
Lecithin has lots of phosphatidylcholine which relaxes the nervous system.
Eating chocolate can for two nights keeps me from getting back to sleep in the night, but chocolate flavonols are good for the brain.
I buy lecithin powder by the pound at BulkFoods, but they have been out of stock for months. Nuts.com has it, though.
RB (Somewhere in Europe) on 09/07/2022
However, on the negative side, when, on day 2, I attempt to use the same supplement at the same dose, I have insomnia on day 2. Then when, on day 3, I double my initial dose, then it works for me again, but only on day 3. It does not work for me on day 4. On day 4 I have insomnia again. Then when, on day 5, I quadruple my initial dose, then it works for me again, but only on day 5. On day 6, I have insomnia again, because my quadrupled initial dose is not high enough for me on day 6. Now, this kind of inconsistent and erratic performance motivates me to dump my supply of Melatonin, 5-HTP and L-Tryptophan, and start taking something else (for insomnia). Because, as to Melatonin and or its precursors, it is a tremendous challenge for me to try to determine what the proper dose should be for me.
All in all, based on the many books that have been written about Melatonin, I find it amazing how overrated and overpraised Melatonin is, when in reality Melatonin and its precursors perform unreliably and inconsistently.
Junebug (East Earl, PA) on 05/31/2022
Faith (Unalaska) on 03/30/2022
