Gut brain connection, dysbiosis and microbiome. Normal and abnormal microbiota. Enteric nervous system, intestine anatomy. Signals from brain to digestive tract. Colon and cerebrum vector illustration
You can have a great diet. You can take first rate supplements,
BUT if your gut isn’t working right, you don’t get the benefits.
Bottom Line is that you need to build healthy digestion, If your digestion isn’t up to par, you won’t be able to use the nutrition to create health.
The Gut-Brain Axis is the communication system between the brain and the trillions of bacteria and enzymes living within our intestines – our gut microbiome.
So, improve your gut and you improve your brain, your digestion, your nerves, your immune system.
This is the most important scientific discovery for human healthcare in recent decades.
Okay, not getting enough sleep seems to be very common. Ad after ad for pills (both natural and chemical) to help you sleep are advertised on the TV, in social media, emails, etc. etc.
There are many reasons you can’t sleep, a lot of people think they need melatonin and others want to knock themselves out with natural herbs such as valerian root or kava kava.
A much better solution is to figure out what is going on and address that.
First, it may be due to what you are eating or drinking that has too much caffeine. That is easily handled by not drinking or eating too much (chocolate has caffeine) and if you do make sure it is early in the day.
Don’t over exercise. It creates sleeping problems, try low stress exercise and taking long walks late in the day – walking is low stress & you are getting lots of oxygen. Get out and look around and look into the distance.
A high pulse rate can interrupt your sleep. It can be that your pH is too acidic. It can be due to a potassium deficiency – potassium lowers your pulse rate and calms the nervous system down. And don’t eat too many refined carbohydrates that deplete the body of potassium. You can get a lot of potassium & magnesium from vegetables, if you can digest it. If you can digest, eat 7-10 cups of veggies and salads. Recommended Electrolyes.
Meat, fish and eggs are high in phosphates. This will excelarate the nervous system – don’t eat too much protein especially late at night.
Don’t eat fat at night, as that can irritate the gallbladder and digestion. Eat fats earlier in the day.
Prevent upsets such as watching the news – watch a comedy or read a book.
It may be your adrenals Overactive adrenals will stop you from sleeping. If you are waking up at 2 AM it is adrenal. Too low or two high cortisol – bumps you out of sleep. Improve the Adrenals. Meanwhile you can take the Sleep Aid which is made for the Adrenals. See Adrenal Exhaustion
I’ve come across this quite often where some health problem is treated by addressing the symptom instead of finding out why that symptom exists and treating that. How many medical doctors think that they are naturopaths by addressing sleep with tart cherry instead of a drugs. But they are still treating the symptoms. Finding out why the person can’t sleep and treating that would be a nutritional handling of the problem.
B-complex vitamin deficiencies occur far more easily and frequently than has been generally assumed, especially in people on weight loss diets, fasts, high daily intakes of sugar, refined and processed foods, as well as, caffeine, saccharine and alcohol.
People under stress or on a long list of medications can also be at high risk of developing B vitamin deficiencies.
RHP B-Complex Plus is now available.
The Plus is adaptogens. Adaptogens are natural substances that work with a person’s body and helps them adapt; most notably, to stress.
Knowing what the situation is regarding your health puts you on the road to building health. But now there seems to be so much more you can do.
Do you have tired Adrenals?
Exhausted adrenals?
Is this the real reason you have problems sleeping?
We do have some good articles that got through the steps on what you can do to help – immediate help, what to eat, and what supplements you can take to support your adrenals and build adrenal health.
When the body is on constant alert as it thinks its in a non-survival situation, it creates a lot of cortisol – the flight or fight hormone. But what happens when your body has been doing that for so long that it has low cortisol and exhausted adrenals.
You can read about what you can do to support your adrenals Adrenal Fatigue
Sound familiar? I hear it all the time and have worked on helping people with this problem.
Okay, there is a new educational book by Dr. Eric Berg called The Healthy Keto Plan (his earlier book Body Type Guide and the 7 Principals of Fat Burning.) The new book has so much information that is written to be easily understood.
