I've been sleeping off and on for years now and didn't realize why.
I got married.

While marriage is great, it also brings compromises. One compromise of mine:

Sleeping with the window closed.

I used to sleep with the window wide open all night all year long.

Our master bedroom is stuffy with heavy air filled with carbon dioxide. Id like to measure how much.

Lately, we have been sleeping with the window open and I've been sleeping wonderfully all night through and waking rested. My wife sleeps like a rock either way.

So if you suffer from constant waking at night, you may be lacking oxygen. Open your window. That just may do the trick.

If it doesn't, there may be other factors waking you up frequently at night:

• Not enough protein before sleep causing low blood sugar swings which wake you up.
• Sleep apnea caused by food allergies, being overweight, soft palate weakness, nasal polyps, a...

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Going to sleep fine finally after years? But now you cannot stay asleep?

Your body may be craving some fuel so try filling the tank with protein prior to bed. Have a cup of warmed spiced milk with coriander, cinnamon and nutmeg. Or have a chunk of celery with some peanut butter. Bust opens a can of beans and eat some of those.

Those are some protein choices. Make sure you pick protein choices which your body tolerates well. The key to digesting proteins is chewing chewing chewing. Make sure you chew your food well and do not dilute with too much liquid.

You may be waking up in the middle of the night due to hypoglycemia - low blood sugar. Protein helps prevent that.

Give it a shot. Let me know how it goes for you.

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Eating and Drinking: Don't Mix

If you are wondering if you are able to digest anything or let alone absorb any nutrients - try this trick that Dr Pizzorno, ND told us in Healing Systems lecture a couple weeks back:

• Take 1 tsp of Brewer's Yeast with water on an empty stomach.
• Your next few trips to the toilet, look for yellow pee.
• If you have yellow pee, you can digest and absorb.
• If you do not have yellow pee, take 10 mg of B2.
• Your next few trips to the toilet, look for yellow pee.
• If the stream is yellow, then you can absorb nutrients but you cannot digest.
• If your stream is still not yellow, then you cannot digest nor can you absorb.

Question then is: What to do?

That's a big question.

Yes there are digestive enzymes. Yes there is betaine HCl. But why do that when you haven't tried the basics. And the basics may actually solve the problem.

All I can say for now is - when you eat, only eat. Do not multitask. If you do, you are not allowing y...Read More

I've been sleeping off and on for years now and didn't realize why.
I got married.

While marriage is great, it also brings compromises. One compromise of mine:

Sleeping with the window closed.

I used to sleep with the window wide open all night all year long.

Our master bedroom is stuffy with heavy air filled with carbon dioxide. Id like to measure how much.

Lately, we have been sleeping with the window open and I've been sleeping wonderfully all night through and waking rested. My wife sleeps like a rock either way.

So if you suffer from constant waking at night, you may be lacking oxygen. Open your window. That just may do the trick.

If it doesn't, there may be other factors waking you up frequently at night:

• Not enough protein before sleep causing low blood sugar swings which wake you up.
• Sleep apnea caused by food allergies, being overweight, soft palate weakness, nasal polyps, a...

Read More

Going to sleep fine finally after years? But now you cannot stay asleep?

Your body may be craving some fuel so try filling the tank with protein prior to bed. Have a cup of warmed spiced milk with coriander, cinnamon and nutmeg. Or have a chunk of celery with some peanut butter. Bust opens a can of beans and eat some of those.

Those are some protein choices. Make sure you pick protein choices which your body tolerates well. The key to digesting proteins is chewing chewing chewing. Make sure you chew your food well and do not dilute with too much liquid.

You may be waking up in the middle of the night due to hypoglycemia - low blood sugar. Protein helps prevent that.

Give it a shot. Let me know how it goes for you.

Related useful posts:
Cannot sleep?
Eating and Drinking: Don't Mix

If you are wondering if you are able to digest anything or let alone absorb any nutrients - try this trick that Dr Pizzorno, ND told us in Healing Systems lecture a couple weeks back:

• Take 1 tsp of Brewer's Yeast with water on an empty stomach.
• Your next few trips to the toilet, look for yellow pee.
• If you have yellow pee, you can digest and absorb.
• If you do not have yellow pee, take 10 mg of B2.
• Your next few trips to the toilet, look for yellow pee.
• If the stream is yellow, then you can absorb nutrients but you cannot digest.
• If your stream is still not yellow, then you cannot digest nor can you absorb.

Question then is: What to do?

That's a big question.

Yes there are digestive enzymes. Yes there is betaine HCl. But why do that when you haven't tried the basics. And the basics may actually solve the problem.

All I can say for now is - when you eat, only eat. Do not multitask. If you do, you are not allowing y...Read More