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Hoppy
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Melatonin and sleep.
Nov 29th, 2013 at 5:12pm
 
When darkness hits our eyes at night, we begin to produce the hormone melatonin. This hormone is crucial as it tells your adrenal glands to produce DHEA, one of the master hormones of the body. Melatonin is crucial to sleeping well at night – a lack of melatonin is why you can’t sleep deeply when your bedroom light is on. Melatonin supplements are sold as sleep aids to insomniacs and are very safe.

Everyone knows that a rough night’s sleep ruins your mood the next day – part of the reason for this is that feel good neurotransmitters like serotonin are replenished during restful sleep, and if you miss out your brain serotonin levels will be depressed the next day. You should do everything possible to get a good night’s sleep if you want to get your serotonin levels, and your mood, up.

Sour cherries actually contain melatonin! Mark Konlee, author of The Immune Restoration Handbook, writes, ‘Drinking a glass of sour cherry juice, or eating about 20 red tart cherries before retiring at night, may assist in inducing a deeper state of sleep and supporting adrenal glandular function’(8).

Mark writes: ‘You can help yourself to a night of deep restful sleep by taking 10 grams of a cold processed whey protein, like ImmunePro, before bedtime, or eating ½ cup of cottage or ricotta cheese on rye bread, as a source of Glutamine and calcium lactate, and, when used with the cherries, may induce a deep sleep’.

This bedtime meal for insomniacs, combining two foods that increase serotonin levels, is actually very similar to the kind of meal top bodybuilding nutritionist John Berardi recommends for preventing night time muscle catabolism in his article ‘Bedtime Story’. By eating this delicious late night snack you should wake up in a better mood and having gained some lean muscle!


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Re: Melatonin and sleep.
Reply #1 - Nov 29th, 2013 at 6:13pm
 
20 sour cherries is a lot as it is. If it contains 3-5mg of melatonin which is the standard dose for inducing sleep, than for CH you'd have to eat 40-80 cherries.
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Re: Melatonin and sleep.
Reply #2 - Nov 29th, 2013 at 9:24pm
 
Hi shooky,
I'm not advocating eating 40-80 tart cherries before bed,
unless of course you want to spend the whole next day
going too the loo, lol. It's just a healthy way for non-
clusterheads to get a good nights sleep. For us suffering
from CH's 10-15mg of Melatonin before bed is the norm.

Hoppy.
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