The article offers expert-backed, simple strategies to improve sleep, including paradoxical intention to stay awake, avoiding lying down during wind-down, maintaining a healthy diet with sleep-promoting foods like cherries and nuts, getting morning light exposure, and keeping a consistent sleep schedule. Additional tips include distraction techniques, magnesium use, and regular exercise to enhance sleep quality and duration.
Scientists found a strong link between lactose intolerance and nightmares, suggesting that gastrointestinal discomfort from dairy consumption may disrupt sleep and influence dreams. Adjusting eating habits could potentially improve sleep quality for those with food sensitivities.
The article emphasizes that slow, sustainable fat loss is most effective, highlighting the importance of resistance training and big muscle group exercises at moderate intensity, combined with a healthy diet rich in whole foods and adequate sleep, rather than quick-fix routines or extreme workouts.
A new study suggests that the source of protein in one's diet may impact sleep quality, with plant proteins potentially improving sleep and animal proteins potentially impairing it. While total protein intake showed no significant effect on sleep quality, the study found that higher consumption of plant protein was associated with better sleep quality in women, but not in men. The study also found that processed red meat and poultry were linked to poorer sleep quality, while unprocessed red meat adversely affected sleep in women. However, the study could not establish a causative effect of diet on sleep and further research is needed to verify these findings.
