Eat well and sleep better
The foods that we eat every day regulate the function of our body. All foods contain active ingredients with a powerful drug, one among many is precisely to regulate the sleep-wake cycle, reconciling or not the sleep of an individual. This means that depending on what foods we introduce the diet you can sleep better, longer, or have an adverse effect of sleep and general sleep disorder.
What is sleep?
Sleep is a physiological behavior essential to the body to regenerate energy gradients are essential for the life of our cells. We can distinguish two stages of sleep REM and non-REM stage.
During REM sleep, which is repeated cyclically every 90 minutes, for a period of 15 minutes, the eyes move with rhythmic movements and there is a rapid increase in blood flow to the brain and this is useful for mental health.
If a person is easily disturbed during REM symptoms of stress and nervousness.
If a person is easily disturbed during REM symptoms of stress and nervousness.
Instead during non-REM there is an high production of growth hormone which is vital for physical health.
How many hours should be devoted to sleep?
The physiological studies that describe the adult has to sleep 8 hours on average.
This value depends, however, from personal psychological characteristics of an individual.
In fact, the extrovert, energetic, relentless work, ambitious and self-confident usually the person who sleeps little and easy care, self-satisfied, a little 'neurotic, creative tends to sleep for longer periods.
What natural remedy helps you sleep?
There are several formulations for sleep in the second case of insomnia associated with forms of anxiety, hypochondriasis, climacteric, menopause, dysmenorrhea, hepatic veno-lymphatic, cough, whooping cough, neurotonic status.
It is usually prescribed the
Melissa, by the family of
Labiatae,
acting at the level of the limbic system. It promotes sleep as well as the mnemonic activity through stimulation of the cholinergic system.
The Passiflorais strongly indicated as therapeutic use in disorders of sleep and anxiety, not to mention the activities of sedatives and sleep inducers by metilbutenolo hops already discussed earlier in the case of anxiety.
What should I eat to sleep better?
To help you sleep you should slow down the alertness, characteristic of the waking state.
This means that we must eat foods that a disadvantage excitatory adrenergic activity, favoring instead a slow heartbeat, muscle relaxation and activity of the inhibitory central nervous system.
The bromide content in the skins of apples makes the tea apple peel a great remedie of sedation with anxiolytic activity.
The lactucario, content inside oflettuce, has analgesic, sedative, hypnotic properties and a strong narcotic effect similar.
The considerable quantity of potassium present in zucchini and potatoes, promotes muscle relaxant activity, and then sleep inducers.
In general I can recommend the following dishes for evening meals with sedative and sleeping effects: rice and lettuce, rice, zucchini, zucchini marinated with mint, parsley potatoes, potatoes and leeks.
In case of sleep disorders you should avoid all foods that increase alertness neuropsychic, such as fish, mullet, salmon, bread, butter and eggs.
