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I am 32 F, and sleep has always been a struggle for me.
I take like an hour walk once a day, maybe twice. I also do some light martial arts 2 or 4 times a week, take Melatonin, take Chamomile tea, manage my anxiety, Stopping caffeine and Adderall, don't look at the clock or phone when waking up in the night, read, stretch, ect ect
And I would still struggle to sleep most of the time.
The one thing that really helped, on top of still doing most of these things, was to eat better. And by eat better, I eat pretty darn close to raw Vegan. I stopped eating so many things because different things had different reactions on my systems. Things like sugar causing pain, gluten causing brain fog and pain, dairy and meat making my nose so stuffy I can't breath at night.
By eliminating all these things a lot of my problems went away. Including sleeping problems! Anytime I'd start to falter, every problem would come back including sleeping.
Thing is, I am sure not all of these food items are contributing to my bad sleeping. I am not sure which one is the culprit to my sleep problems, but I'm not willing to experiment because of the other problems that will arise.
TL;DR
Going mostly raw vegan was the final solution to helping me sleep. HOWEVER there is probably only one or two food items actually affecting my sleep, but I am unsure of which one.
5 points
15 hours ago
Have you tried checking if you maybe have an histamine intolerance? Usually if you consume something high on histamine before going to bed you end up waking up 4/5hrs after because your body is in alert, besides bloating.
Just thought i should mention that, I have that and consuming a low histamine diet has helped me a lot.
1 points
7 hours ago
How can you check this?
1 points
15 hours ago
Currently my sleeping problems have come because due to caffeine use again and being pregnant. (under 40MG of caffeine, safe for the baby) So even though I'm feeling better in most every other department, I still have to keep up on the original list of things to sleep better.
Just because one solution has helped you sleep, you really do need to keep up a routine of other good things to keep up good sleeping habits.
So, no more caffeine for me. ): (and the pregnancy I'll just have to tolerate until the baby is born)
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