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Warm Milk Does Not Make People Sleep Better

Brian Yalung — Fri, 12 Oct 2007 13:46:41 +0000

Prior to what we have all been oriented ever since, warm milk which was believed to be a good resort for people having a hard time to sleep is not an answer to all the worries of most people. It is more of a psychological factor that has been passed on that has been making most of us believe that it is a good solution to sleep deprived people.

Few foods have a reputation for curing insomnia quite like warm milk.

According to age-old wisdom, milk is chock full of tryptophan, the sleep-inducing amino acid that is also well-known for its presence in another food thought to have sedative effects: turkey.

But whether milk can induce sleep is debatable, and studies suggest that if it does, the effect has little to do with tryptophan. To have any soporific effect, tryptophan has to cross the blood-brain barrier. And in the presence of other amino acids, that is difficult for it to do.

Source: STUDIES: Milk at bedtime may be soothing, probably not sleep-inducing

Wake Up at the Right Place and Time

Brian Yalung — Sat, 16 Jun 2007 09:05:10 +0000

When it is time to sleep, men who seem to find it hard to be satisfied on the place and time where they would sleep would lose track of time and where they are actually at. Too much sleep or caffeine perhaps? Well maybe, but the thing is, being too cautious may get you into more trouble.

It is believed that sooner or later you will be caught. Ideally, a person will be caught doing some hanky panky once he becomes to lax and careless as we will see.

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The Problem with Relaxing is Sleeping

Brian Yalung — Sun, 27 May 2007 08:44:44 +0000

So we all want to relax at some point. While this is very much attainable, the problem that most of us ask ourselves is do we have the time to sleep to achieve relaxation? Sleeping is the easiest form of describing what relaxation is all about. Unfortunately, there are further restrictions which deprive us of reaching out goals. One of that is which is the need to be awake most of the time in order to fulfill separate tasks, mostly in connection with being able to provide the stuff needed for our dependents, families and of course, ourselves.

With this, we may consider sleeping as a culprit when relaxation is being discussed. It is not entirely about overall relaxing. It is about overall comfort to which sleep brings us to another subconscious dimension where we can find ourselves thinking we are living in another world for a temporary respite. Hopefully when we wake up, the realities of life are still there up and about for us to continue fulfilling.