Most people who have sleepless nights is due to low oxygen saturation in the blood.
How will you know if you are that person. Buy an inexpensive monitor.
This is the one I have in my cart to buy.
When you go to the Dr. they will prescribe a sleep aid. Most find that when they wake up they feel foggy and tired still. This is because the sleep aid shuts down your brain to react to low levels of oxygen.
When you attempt to sleep unassisted, and your oxygen levels get to low your brain will send a jolt to wake you so you take deeper breaths of air to hopefully increase your blood oxygen saturation levels. When you take a sleep aid it shuts down that part of your brain, and your brain is unable to assist you in the process of increasing the levels. So the groggy feeling you have the next morning is a symptom of suffication, not lagging from the drug you took. The drug matabolizes hours before you wake, and is NOT the cause of the foggy head and tiredness.
How to oxygenate your blood!
It seems to simple. Healing ourselves with food, but that is how the Lord intended it to be.
There are foods you can eat to boost oxygen levels in your blood.
Foods with High in A & B vitamins and antioxidants such as:
wild blueberries
strawberries
blackberries
kidney beans
plums
artichoke hearts
Lemons
Turmeric
Spinach
Grapes
Avacados
Nuts
Beetroot
STOP smoking, Drinking alcohol
START excercising regularly.
You do not have to spend more than 10 to 30 minutes exercising every other day, or at least 2 to 3 times per week.
If you are like me and don't like walking or jogging you can do floor exercises in the comfort of you own home.
Breathing exercises:
Sit or stand in a comfortable position, with your elbows positioned slightly back. This position allows your chest to expand more fully.
Take a deep breath and hold it for as long as you can.
Let the air out and then cough strongly.
Repeat these steps up to 10 times every hour.
This method is recommened to strengthen your lungs, but will also increase your blood oxygen levels.
or
Breath in through your nose deeply while sitting upright. Fill your lungs from the diaphram up.
meaning to not only raise your shoulders while breath also force your stomach out when taking in the deep breath.
Hold the breath for 2 to 10 seconds
Breath out hard through a straw or by puckering your lips as if you have a straw in your mouth
Repeat until you begin to be light headed. This reaction lets you know that your oxygen levels have risen.
Repeat this process as many times as needed during the day, and if you wake up in the middle of the night, sit up and do it again, you may be able to sleep the rest of the night uninterupted.
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