[SittingStill]

The last two weeks I've almost been sleeping “normally” – between 6-8 hours per night, and feel energetic, rested, and enthusiastic during the day (I did have one relape of two 2-hr nights in a row, but otherwise OK).

I'm not quite sure why.

I did start eating lots of yogurt with breakfast in the moring at the beginning of this period of good sleep. About 3 years back, I started eating meat after being a vegetarian for 25 years. Upon this change, I almost immediately started sleeping normally, as if my body was responding to the change in diet. This wore off after about 4 months, and I was back to insomnia hell.

I wonder if this is a similar change. A wild guess at what is going on might have to do with hormones – sometimes meat eating can raise testosterone, so I oftern wonder whether I was low in testosterone, and that was causing my insomnia.

Yogurt is full of pro-biotics, and recently there was a reserch article out about how mice fed yogut were more sexually virie – again, maybe a testosterone link. All I know is that I'll be continuing to eat lots of yogurt in hopes that my sleep stays normal.

[Martin Reed]

Whatever it is, this is encouraging news – congratulations!

Food definitely has a strong influence over the health of our sleep – I've written about this so many times on the Insomnia Land blog, I've lost count!

Testosterone definitely plays its part, too: http://www.insomnialand.com/blog/the-link-between-sexual-dysfunction-testosterone-and-insomnia/

Do keep us updated. Hopefully some other members will chime in with their thoughts. Long may your improved sleep continue!

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