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Sleep - Successful Actions for Getting to Sleep & Staying Asleep
07 Aug 09 - By TheRazzLine Compilation
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Sleep - Successful Actions for Getting to Sleep & Staying Asleep

Counting Sheep

Wow! Did this ever hit a hot button!! I got a bunch of responses regarding sleep - Sweet dreams!
Mercedes

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 500 Mg B1 plus two Catacholacalm herb pills made by Designs for Health. Also, a cup of warm "Calm" which is magnesium -- buy it at the health food store.

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I don't know how old you are but if you're female and over 40, I would first look at low estrogen as a possible cause. There can be other causes but this is probably number one in the aging female.

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Something we have found which works amazingly well for us is having a very, very dark room, with no sources of light, and running a fan which basically drowns out all other sound. I bought a floor fan which makes a lovely light whirrrrrrrr... it’s soothing and constant and keeps the airflow very fresh in the room. You can also add a small humidifier - this is great if your house is too dry. If it’s a body issue - stop drinking all liquids at least 2 hours before bed. NO caffeine after 2 pm. Get a great pillow - one designed for the way you sleep - i.e. firm, medium, soft - side sleeper, back sleeper stomach etc. Make sure your sleep wear is loose, not restrictive in any way and allows your skin to 'breathe'. Do not work-out exercise or do heavy activity after 6pm.

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I have been battling this for awhile, but the following helps: Take 100 mg of B1. Usually that is enough, however you can try timed release melatonin over 8 hrs if not enough. Going to bed at pretty much the same time every night is really good if possible. Also helpful is to drink a "sleepy time tea" or some such. I have tried more than one, and they are very good. Make sure your diet is appropriate to your body and you are not deficient in nutrients, or eating the wrong foods. Also you should exercise each day. If you are not sleeping because of the number of things on your mind, write down everything your attention is on and what you can do about each and when. A sure proof is 500 mg of b1, 100 b6, 500 mg b5 and 150 zinc. However, if you need to do this, take day 1 of the purif vitamins the next morning so that you do not create an artificial deficiency.

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Get a latex bed from Dormia. It's all natural. Absolutely nothing like it. Will take it anywhere I ever move.

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There is a product called Sleep Release that I like. I originally got it at the One Stop Shop in CW. You can probably get it at a Chiros locally.

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CalMac is amazing. You can find it at Vitamin Cottage. Good luck! Sleepy Time Tea works great too!


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Here's what I do: CalMag in the evening -- but be careful you get enough potassium as without it you'll wind up even more of an insomniac. 3x Sleep Release (www.sleeprelease.com) chinese herbs at night before bed, along with a B Complex and B1, and L-Tryptophan to help me stay asleep. This keeps me from lying abed for hours thinking, without falling asleep. I've also heard that juicing half a head of plain old iceberg lettuce, and drinking the juice before bed, will help. Haven't had to go that far, however, as that seems kind of drastic.


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Believe it or not, one of our often heard testimonies is of people sleeping better when drinking the anti-oxidant water. I get Anti-Oxidant Water from a machine I recently purchased, called the Kangen Alkaline Ionizer... We are Really Helping people with their bodies.

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I don't know how old you are, but if you are at the age of pre-menopause or menopause, hormone therapy helps a lot.!

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2-3 magnesium at night (take calcium in AM) 1 Melatonin 20 mins. before sleep. Sleepy Time Tea (From Trader Joes)

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Peter Gillham's used to have a "sleep formula" which consisted of several steps; if one didn't work well enough for you, go onto the next step or add the next -- something like that. There were about 8 or 9 steps that one could try. What worked for me is Activated Pantothentic Acid -- one of the B vitamins. If I can't sleep for any reason, I just take one of these and I become relaxed and sleep through the whole night. As it is just a vitamin, I don't wake up groggy or out of it; I wake up refreshed and feeling good. It works well also for my wife but some people have told me that it didn't work as well for them. I guess everyone is different. That's why the formula they had with several steps seemed like a winning formula.

 

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String cheese, half an apple and a pint of gin.

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Check out the reference R2-40 in the book The Creation of Human Ability. I've used this reference myself with great success.

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Try brewer's yeast that is natural vitamins B and trace elements, walk before sleeping and do a puzzle, Sudoku which puts your mind onto something else.

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My husband and I take a supplement called "Calcium Lactate" by Standard Process. As well, there is a very good book by Dr. Eric Berg, "7 Principles of Fat Burning", that indicates that insomnia is a symptom of adrenal deficiency. I would recommend getting that book; it is not a book just about burning fat but an excellent guide to better and great health. My husband and I have benefitted greatly by it. Here is the link: http://www.bergdiets.com/

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400-500 mg B1 at bed time. "Take a walk" per Problems of Work is helpful for me. The electrolyte drink by the company that makes Emergen-C - but just put the whole package in a small glass of water. Handles twitching and spasms. A long, hot bath before bedtime. If I have adrenal exhaustion, the Standard Process supplements to handle that, like Dessicated adrenals or Cataplex. Make sure the bed is very comfortable

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I go to bed early - before 10:15PM - having made sure I've exercised during the day. Then I make certain that the phones are off, that no light can disturb me, that I am dressed warmly enough in CA ,and cool enough in FL. That I have some a source fresh air in the room, but I've turned the air conditioning off. Then I just curl up to a warm pillow and fall asleep - after I have postulated that I'm falling asleep.

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Take a walk per LRH, exercise during the day, write down anything you are thinking about before bed, even if it's not a "to do". Also, Calm or Cal/mag and B1 250mgs or more, b5 & b6. There is melatonin, I don't use that but I do use Sleep Release, You can get at Peter Guilhams.

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Exercise daily. I got into walking a couple of years back when I was trying to lose some weight. I walk a couple of miles a day. Cal Mag : I use the cheap Calcium Magnesium pills from the health food store. 4 of them a couple of hours before bed, but my wife uses the strawberry flavored liquid. Yum : )

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MY top 5 Sleep Tips: 1. Exercise well, not just a gym but really using your body to live life, tennis, soccer, mountain climbing, running. 2. Cal-mag and Vitamin B-1. Keep the B-1 on hand and pop an extra 100mg if you wake up. 3. Don't have any caffeine after 5:00 pm, and only 1-2 drinks per day. 4. Complete all your cycles of action every day. 5. Get up to the top of the Bridge.

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My wife and I have both had trouble sleeping from time to time. The best thing we have done is a long walk in the woods, at least an hour. Walking in the woods (if possible) is better than in streets we find because we just relax better. And a long enough walk to amount to some exercise, too. I also take melatonin that I get at Trader Joe's and that is not expensive at all.

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The following actions have helped me over the years: Completely dark in room, no visible light from any source. Cool room No noise in room or outside Get rid of electronics in room, if not possible handle with a sea salt lamp from health food store. Very beautiful too. Make sure you are well fed, proper vitamins, etc. Handle all know outpoints in body so that it is comfortable. Make sure no upsets at bedtime with family and friends. Make sure body is comfortable, not too warm, not too cool. Don't drink any fluids after 7 or 6 pm. find time that works for you. Back of bed should be next to wall and windows and doors in front, according to ancients. Some supplements like minerals or such help calm nerves if needed. Dr. Mercola's website has a more complete list though some of above are not mentioned.

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One thing to watch out for is insomnia created by adrenal fatigue. When someone's adrenals are out of wack you get a cyclic on and off of the adrenals where in the morning and evening the adrenals are pumping unnecessarily and in the afternoon and very early morning they are totally shot. This makes it hard to sleep at night because the adrenals are pumping. Adrenal fatigue can be diagnosed by the fact that in the afternoon every day you become very tired and the clinical way is if your blood pressure at rest is higher than when you are active (I am not sure if I have that right but could look it up). If you suspect this is the case then I would recommend: Get off of caffeine and sugar. Eat a good (easy to digest) breakfast no fail. As soon as you start to get hungry eat (ie several small meals instead of 3 big ones). Exercise as often as possible but only light aerobic exercise which gets your heart pumping but doesn't drain your energy all the way down. Basically the idea is to keep from getting the adrenals to start pumping a lot at any time of the day. So you keep your blood sugar nice and even all day (no spikes due to caffeine and sugar) and (no crashes due to those or waiting to eat too long or eating foods which are difficult to digest). Same goes for hydration through out the day and don't over do it either. These will help (even if you don't suspect adrenal fatigue): B6 couple hundred mgs before you go to sleep and also some throughout the day B5 "" Potassium - 1000mgs C - Peter Gilham’s Ultimate C is good as it is not ascorbic acid Take a walk at night Get all of your unhandled cycles of action out of your mind When you decide to go to sleep don't postulate that you are "going to sleep" decide that you "are asleep".

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I don't have this difficulty any more, but when I started menopause, I would wake up and not be able to get back to sleep after a few hours. I found it was hormonal and that the natural progesterone cream was the best solution on a short-term basis. I also use the #1 and #2 herbal pills from Dr. Schulze - I found after my intestine had cleaned out that I gradiently stopped needing the hormonal cream. (Sometimes thyroxin helps also, if the thyroid is under producing.) I find "Calm" magnesium always helps me to get to sleep if I drink it right before I want to go to sleep. (If you have hot flashes you can loose a lot of magnesium which needs to be replaced.) Also cutting down on caffeine products. Also, anything with "natural flavoring" or MSG keeps me awake. My other successful actions are getting plenty of outdoor exercise - biking or walking on a daily basis. But not doing aerobic exercise after dark as it revs me up too much. And keeping things calm a few hours before we go to sleep.
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I have helped quite a few friends, with this regime: - stop eating sugar and flour - get more exercise - short, high intensity (at your level) - do a "cycle completion" admin process (work at completing your incomplete cycles of action) - take wobenzyme (8 in morning before breakfast and 8 in evening before bed). - drink much more pure water - drink a lot of pure aloe vera juice I am NOT a doctor - just doing a lot of sport...:)

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My problem has been not be able to stay asleep. The 2 things that have helped me are bio-identical hormones and balancing my protein/carb in take. I'm still working on the later. A good book for that is "The Metabolic Typing Diet by William Wolcott and Trish Fahey.

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What really gets me to sleep: I make up stories when I go to bed, ongoing stories, like a serial. Really just ordinary fantasies without a lot of importance. When I lie down and focus on the story and the characters, I think it mimics dreaming somehow and I drop right off. My husband recalls all the Kings of England in date order or the Presidents of the US - same kind of focus, but different material.
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