Why Insomniacs ALWAYS Have Gut Problems

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you know when i was in practice for 30 years i would say nearly a hundred percent of every single person who could not sleep especially the ones that had chronic sleeping issues always had gut issues either they had irritable bowel syndrome or celiac or crohn’s or diverticulitis or heartburn or bloating or indigestion something was going on in the stomach and this is probably why when people take probiotics before bed they sleep better so today i’m going to talk about the link between your digestion and your sleeping and give you some tips on how to improve your sleeping i’ve done a lot of videos on sleeping especially related to light and how that affects the circadian rhythms how it can either stimulate or inhibit sleep depending on how much fluorescent light or led light that you’re exposed to so if you haven’t seen that video that would be also very important i’ll put that link down below but you have this um clock in your brain the suprachiasmic nuclei or you might want to pronounce it super chasmic i’m not even sure how do you pronounce it exactly but there’s a clock in your brain that regulates uh your sleep patterns and that clock uses as its main hormone something called melatonin and so the question is how do you get enough melatonin to make this clock work correctly should you just take it as a supplement and i don’t recommend that because anytime you take a hormone you really are treating the symptom you’re not getting rid of the cause and i want to know what’s really underneath the deficiency of melatonin also when you take hormones you inactivate the gland that makes them so there’s several ways that melatonin is created melatonin comes from another hormone called serotonin and ninety percent of all the serotonin in your body is made with help from your friendly bacteria so these microbes help you in so many different ways they actually take tryptophan which is amino acid and they convert that to serotonin and this is probably why people take l-tryptophan as a supplement to help them sleep and the reason it does help you because it converts to serotonin which then converts to melatonin now if you ever take tryptophan to help you sleep always take it on an empty stomach because if you take it with food protein from that food will block the absorption of tryptophan so you want to take it on an empty stomach and yes it does work pretty good now tryptophan also works for anxiety as well and what’s fascinating is that it was used long ago i don’t know 20 plus years ago for um depression and i mean so many people were using it and all of a sudden there was this contamination i think if i’m not mistaken in china or japan and this created a scare where the fda took it off the market and coincidentally a new remedy the next week came into being for depression and anxiety and that was prozac i just find that a very interesting coincidence right but what i think that’s even more of a coincidence is that tryptophan came back on the market if i’m not mistaken it was allowed back on the market right when the patents ran out for prozac i could be wrong but i could be right on that so we have tryptophan that turns into serotonin it turns into melatonin with the help of your microbes and this is why one of the side effects from taking an antibiotic produces insomnia your sleep is disturbed now to make tryptophan work you also need vitamin b6 if someone is deficient in b6 the conversion of tryptophan to serotonin just won’t occur and this is why people that have a b6 deficiency also have insomnia so i’m just kind of giving you the pathway of what can occur and the great importance of your microbiome which is collectively all the friendly bacteria and the friendly yeast and friendly other organisms that help you in fact the microbiome is considered another organ that you have you’re dependent on it you cannot live without it you’re not going to be able to sleep without your microbes and so if you have sleeping problems this is another important focus focus on your gut microbiome and do things to improve in fact you might want to take a probiotic you might want to watch my video on taking kefir before bed or at least later in the day to help you sleep because it’s a great remedy but you can also use kimchi or sauerkraut and that can help you now these microbes also consume fiber and i also personally find that if i don’t consume like a salad my sleep isn’t as good so i do find that fiber from salad does help me sleep other people with gut issues might find that fiber not helpful they would probably sleep better without it but if you don’t have a gut issue it might help you because also the vegetables have the potassium and magnesium that does help sleep the other really important thing i want to mention uh in this video is that if you are doing fasting okay in the past i’d recommend certain patterns of fasting let’s say you’re going to do i don’t know eighteen and six you’re gonna fast for 18 hours and you’re gonna your eating window is six hours but the time of when you eat can greatly affect your sleep as well there’s some new information which i’ve done a video on which i will put down below that basically states that if you shift your eating window to earlier in the day which supposes what i’ve been recommending but you might want to try it out so you would eat in the morning eat your breakfast and then have your second meal if you do a second meal no later than three o’clock p. m you may find that your sleeping is much better because there are certain food genes that are normally downgraded so if you upgrade them with food you’re stimulating certain genes that can actually make you more awake so this late night grazing is terrible for sleeping eating too late might be not good for sleeping so you might want to try having your last meal no later than three in the afternoon okay and don’t worry about quantity have a good meal if you do omad just make sure it doesn’t go past 3 p. m and that may greatly help your sleeping now if you haven’t seen my video on connecting your sleep cycle to light in darkness you should check that out i put it up right here