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<<Disclaimer: Verify this information before applying it to your situation.>>
Hi: Some interesting responses to my question about waking in the night
with hunger! apparently lots of people like to eat peanuts before bed.
Who knew?
Summary below...
<<I used to wake and be starving in the night but now I use a liquid melatonin
by Source Naturals (just 1 mg) and I sleep like a baby.>>
Pain pills may cause problems: <<I am taking Darvocet (for pain) a few
hours before I take Ambien. Just wondered if you were also taking a pain
pill at the same time as a sleeping pill?>>
<<If you have cut out all the bad stuff from your diet, you just might not
be getting enough food period, thus the hunger in the night. I suggest you
eat a bit of something before retiring, a piece of fruit, some veggies,
anything to curb that hunger. Not knowing how old you are, hormones can
also play a part in waking up in the night and even hunger.>>
<<It sounds like you might be a bit hypoglycemic. Try a small snack before
bedtime.>>
<<I do wake in the middle of the night, about 5 hours after going to sleep,
with muscle tension and a migraine if I eat anything I react to -- and
there are lots of foods that I react to in addition to gluten (all grasses,
including cane sugar, casein protein, and legumes). I don't have the
intense hunger in the middle of the night, but eating anything I react to
does seem to make me crave eating more -- of anything!>>
<<Three things help me sleep better:
(1) Comprehensive mineral supplement. I like OsteoPrime made by
PhytoPharmica. (2) Adrenal support supplement containing small amount of
adrenal extract. This has stopped ALL the "hypoglycemic" symptoms I used
to have in both day and night. ( I like Stress EZE by Phoenix
Nutritionals.)(3) Get outdoors at least 20 minutes a day to expose my eyes
(and therefore my brain) to sufficient light to set my sleep cycle
properly. (Low light exposure is a major contributor to seasonal insomnia
so common in winter months.)>>
<<Has to do with either blood sugar drops or high cortisol, which are more
or less the same thing. I get that if I don't eat much in the evening.
[Try having your] biggest meal at night. Always be sure to get some meat
and fat in the evening, and a "slow carb" like a baked potato with butter
or oil.>>
<<If you are still healing you might not be absorbing enough nutrition and
hence are really hungry.>>
Try this: <<Hot bath in the evening - Handful of peanuts before bed - This
one works very well!! No chocolate or coffee after 2:PM>>
<<I wake up with this when I have accidentally had gluten. almost always
around 3 or 4 am, regardless of
what time the day before I think I accidentally got gluten. it is like a
hollow, gnawing hungry feeling. I usually get a snack and go back to bed
and feel awful the next day.>>
<<Have you tried eating protein before you go to bed? I usually eat peanuts
or soy ice cream >>
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