Elsewhere on this blog, I’ve written a lot about the link between Calcium, Magnesium and sleep. We all know that Calcium plays a crucial role in the development of strong teeth and bones, but it also plays a very important part in the clotting of your blood, body fluid regulation and several other processes. It’s really quite… Read More…
There has been a lot of hype about calcium and magnesium supplementation. Often, these two minerals come in the same tablet, so it’s extra convenient to get both. But do these supplements actually do anything? Increasingly, unless you suffer from a particular condition, the answer is “no”. I thought initially that supplementation in general (and… Read More…
You could take weeks, months or years to research your sleep. But the information you really need is distilled here. In about five minutes, you’ll get a crash-course on sleep and insomnia. I’ll also tell you about treatment – what works and what doesn’t. What Is Insomnia? Insomnia is defined as either having a hard… Read More…
From posts in both WebMD, and in Alternative and Complementary Therapies comes confirmation of something I’ve suspected as I’ve wandered through the muriad of ”herbal remedies for sleep and insomnia”. I’ve come to the conclusion that these therapies, when they work, have much more to do with the placebo effect than any physiological action. In other… Read More…
Joe Penniston via Compfight I’m sure this post will raise some anxiety if I dismiss an insomnia treatment that happens to work for you. I’m sorry, but as you’ll read later, I wonder if it’s really doing anything. I generally put most primary insomnia treatments (secondary insomnia is a whole other thing) into one of five… Read More…
Scarleth White via Compfight Only a few weeks ago, I stopped taking Calcium Supplements because of a recent study published in the BMJ (British Medical Journal) publication Heart that linked these supplements and an increased risk of heart attack (myocardial infarction or MI). The study was called: Associations of dietary calcium intake and calcium supplementation… Read More…
Photo Credit: Bryan Wright via Compfight I have to wonder whether Paleo (Primal, Archevore) eating I’ve been doing for the last 100+ days has had an unintended side effect (I refuse to call it diet, because that sounds so temporary)? Sleep. I now get to sleep quickly at 11pm, after reading in bed for an… Read More…
Photo Credit: ThomasThomas via Compfight Addendum 5/24/2012: New Research - Click Here I watched a segment of the Dr. Oz program the other day, where he had as a guest Dr. Michael Breus, PhD. Dr. Breus is also known as “The Sleep Doctor“, and I happened to be on a Twitter chat with him (and a… Read More…
