How to Avoid the Morning Hangover!

Do you lie awake at night, tossing and turning with billions of thoughts running through your head?  You just can’t seem to turn it off.  Each morning you roll out of bed feeling hangover simply because you slept like sh*t.

So, what do you do?  You turn to the very things which are known to interrupt your sleep patterns.  Items such as coffee, sugar, processed foods, and alcohol (got to get to sleep somehow). It’s a vicious cycle of “I need energy, I am tired, I need energy, I am tired.”

Your body repairs itself during the sleep phase.  Do you want to be more productive; do you want more endurance; do you want to avoid being the grouchy a-hole?  I’m hearing a lot of YES’, then you need to get your Zzzzz’s!!!!

The microbiome (aka gut) supports the way you sleep.  When you feed it with items which “mess it up” it gets confused and produces hormones which directly affect sleep. Studies are showing when you feed the gut with the following nutrients you may sleep better.  

• Fermented foods: Kimchi, kombucha, and sauerkraut. These foods have beneficial enzymes and several strains of probiotics which are known to support your digestive health!
• Vitamin C: Strawberries, sweet peppers, Superfoods such as camu camu berry, acerola cherry
• Iron: lentils, spinach, dark chocolate, chickpeas or cook in a cast iron skillet!
• Calcium – arugula, dark green leafy vegetables. Tahini, sardines, salmon with bone
• Magnesium: Beans, dark greens, nuts and seeds. Magnesium deficiency effects 48% of Americans. This is caused my stress, coffee, alcohol and not enough nutrients in our diets.

Your #1 Goal Crushing Fan,

-Mary