Never Eat These Before Bed (please)

Hi {NAME}, Simply don’t eat these thing within a few hours of bedtime: One: foods with MSG. This is not a hit piece on MSG. I understand it’s used a lot. But we need to understand that one of the reasons it makes food taste so good is because it lights our brain up (glutamate scale). Great for pleasure and taste. Not so good before bed. Some of this is anecdotal, personally, but there are also some rodent model studies that look at it. Mostly it’s just common sense. Notice you don’t sleep well after cheap BBQ, maybe Buffet food, maybe fast food Chinese cuisine?? (One of the ways you can potentially combat this is by using magnesium because it tilts the brain more towards the GABA side) There’s a company called [Impossible Sleep]( that makes a delicate combination of magnesium and theanine (what I consider the perfect ratio). USE CODE TDL20 for 20% OFF Very, very simple product that has no hidden nasty stuff in it. Sweetened with stevia, tastes delicious (strawberry and soon an Apple Cinnamon flavor). It kind of sets the mood too. Theanine helps the body calm down and almost has a cooling like effect that makes nestling into your sheets just feel comfy and cozy. Here’s a discount link and use Code TDL20 for 20% Off as well as a free sleep kit with purchase. [( It uses 350mg of moderately fast absorbing magnesium alongside 150mg of theanine, so it hits you quite quick. Usually, if I take it, it’s about 20 mins before I feel like I comfortably need to hit the hay. Again, if you want to try it, here’s the [link]( and use code TDL20 for 20% off. TWO: Spicy Foods Before Bed I love spicy food. I eat a fair bit of Mexican food. But when it’s spicy. It does something to sleep. There was a study published in Cureus that even found that intake of spicy food was significantly associated with disrupted sleep. There was a particularly strong effect on sleep latency – meaning that spicy food intake can increase time to fall sleep. Based upon the data that I have seen, it seems to have to do with thermoregulation. Remember how I mentioned before theanine helps you sleep because it cools you? Spicy food does the opposite and this can make you feel wired and can actually disrupt sleep. Try to keep spicy food to 3 hours before bed. THREE: Salty food. What?! I thought salt was good. Don’t worry. It is. But we’re starting to correlate high sodium dinner with poorer sleep. There was a study published in [Endocrine Abstracts]( that was interesting. They recruited 20 volunteers with no sleep problems and had them record their time of sleep and time they went to bed for 5 nights before salt eating On day 6, they took 0.5g salt per 10kg bodyweight at 8pm and the researchers recorded a range of parameters (time of sleep, awakening at night, presence of any disturbances, depth of sleep, duration of fulfilling sleep, water drinking at night, their general condition after sleep, effect on REM and non-REM and presence of nightmares). They found that salt intake delayed time to go to bed, increased wakefulness, affected REM and NREM sleep cycles and the day after, subjects were not satisfied with sleep. The potential reasoning is that the fluctuation in blood pressure, additional dehydration, perhaps neurological effect and extra water retention in the abdomen (affects sleep) all made an impact. So what to do? Front load your salty meals early in the day and taper as the day goes on. No need to have a bland dinner. Just don’t go overboard. Ever wonder why you don’t sleep good after eating ar a restaurant??? Hmmmm. I’ve been trying it. My nighttime peeing is MUCH less now. Now, I would be failing you all as a health mentor if I didn’t also mention alcohol. That is the big killer of sleep. Just ditch it. Or day drink (joking). Even if it feels like you’re sleeping. You’re not getting restorative sleep. It changed my life 18 years ago. Quit alcohol. Quit the benzos. Got my life on track. Quick shoutout again to Impossible Sleep. I love a brand that doesn’t need to be gimmicky and fancy. Just good, clean, and easy to wrap your head around. The science is all there. See you tomorrow, Thomas Sent to: {EMAIL} [Unsubscribe]( Thomas DeLauer, PO Box 1120, Stateline, NV 89449, United States