Posted on 03/17/2021 10:03:49 PM PDT by be-baw
Ready to crawl into bed after a long day of "normal human" cosplay? Hoping to fall asleep fast instead of staring at your ceiling for hours? You probably already have the ingredients you need for a dietitian-approved bedtime snack that'll help you drift off. s a strong case for a banana with peanut butter as the best snack for better sleep.
What a dietitian wants you to know about eating before bed:
What you eat before bed and how soon before bed that you eat it can affect both sleep and your digestion. If your food isn't digested before you go to bed then your body spends time that it should be resting on digesting food instead. Elevated glucose levels can keep you awake, Beckerman says, noting that it also depends on how sensitive your body is. She advises against refined sugar and carbs before bed because they can contribute to poor sleep and digestion. But sometimes your brain screams "feed me cookies" after a stressful day because refined sugars and carbs will give it a rush of dopamine. A banana with peanut butter is a bedtime snack that can actually help you sleep better.
Not only are these ingredients a delicious pairing, they also help each other shine. "Bananas are high in potassium and magnesium, which can help your muscles relax," Beckerman explains. (Most of us aren't getting enough magnesium.) Nut butters contain tryptophan, an amino acid that gets turned into serotonin in the brain, and is a precursor to melatonin. Eaten together, the carbs from the banana can make tryptophan more available to your brain and increase your ability to sleep. "This treat is a sleep aid wonder," she says.
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Maybe for you, but I’d be up all night barfing. I hate bananas.
I find that if I set a routine when bedtime arrives, I can make myself fall asleep fast.
Bananas help prevent the calves from locking up, though.
Love this combo!
Yeech!
With decades of insomnia, I’ll definitely give this a try.
A peanut butter/ambien combination works really well too.
The problem is that it is bad for your teeth to go to sleep with all that sticky sugar in your mouth, and brushing your teeth right after such a snack is pretty yucky (Pepsodent and similar taste NASTY after peanut butter/banana).
I often eat a banana as a late snack. When you walk into the kitchen they are easy to grab and the wonderful packaging keeps them fresh if you decide to wait a while.
I love bananas
Sliced up with a teaspoon of raw honey from my back yard hives is sweet ambrosia.
I love bananas but they give me extreme GERD. If I ate one before bed I’d probably choke in my sleep. Peanut butter, though, I might give that a try.
Not for me. A banana is good before exercise, though.
That’s what she said.
Just swallow it whole!
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“Bananas help prevent the calves from locking up, though.”
Interesting.
My wife has sleeping trouble as well. It would be nice if you report back your results.
Endorsed (and soon enforced) by CamelToe HerAss.
Have been eating half a banana before turning in
If I wake up early the other half
Noticed I have no calf lock up since.
I was in hospital last year for a week
Docs were monitoring my potassium levels and discharge was dependent on normal values of potassium.
Since then I keep a stock of bananas at home and in the car when out driving.
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