If you suffer from insomnia, nutritional therapist Rick Hay brings you the best foods to help you sleep. Now, we’re starting to understand the reasons behind some of the foods that help calm the body and promote a restful night’s sleep. 400mg of L-theanine taken as a supplement has also been found to help sleep quality in young boys with ADHD. This is important from an insomnia perspective because often if you find yourself waking up in the small hours, it could be down to blood sugar spikes that subsequently wake you up as your blood sugar drops. Even better, it balances blood sugar instead of spiking it – as sugar does – because it has a low Glycaemic Index (GI).

Source: Daily Mail December 08, 2017 16:38 UTC