Category Archives: Sleep

Glycine and Sleep Quality

Glycine is a non-essential amino acid in human nutrition. This means that the cells of the body are able to synthesise glycine from other amino acids and in this regard there is no requirement to provide a dietary source. The … Continue reading

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Glycine for sleep

Glycine is a non-isomeric non-essential amino acid with a sweet taste. Glycine can be synthesised endogenously in the peripheral and central nervous system. Evidence suggests that 3 grams of glycine prior to sleep can significantly improve the quality of the … Continue reading

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Nutmeg Seeds (Myristica fragrans) as a Sedative

Nutmeg Seeds (Myristica fragrans) have a number of health effects in humans and animals. One effect that has been identified is that of sedatives. For example, in an experiment on mice locomotor activity was significantly inhibited by administration of nutmeg … Continue reading

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Magnesium and Insomnia

Magnesium is an essential macro-mineral that is required in gram amounts for normal physiological regulation. Generally the Western diet is depleted in magnesium, and in addition the diet also contains too much calcium which exacerbates the low magnesium intakes of … Continue reading

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Bananas as a Sleep Supplement

Bananas like most fruits are considered a healthy food. Bananas do differ from other fruits in that they contain higher amounts of sugar when ripe, but this can be a benefit in a number of ways including as a post-exercise … Continue reading

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Glycine and L-Theanine for Rest and Focus (The NMDA Receptor)

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Lifestyle and Stress

Lifestyle is known to play a significant role in the human and animal stress response. In studies, lifestyle manipulation is known to alter the susceptibility to stress and by being able to modify its damaging effects. For example, in one … Continue reading

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Sleep Deprivation and Interleukin 6

Sleep is a restorative process that plays a significant role in maintaining the homeostatic functions of the body. The immune system is particularly affected by sleep, and during periods of sleep there are changes to certain aspects of immunity. For … Continue reading

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Passionflower as a Sleep Aid

Mood disorder can cause insomnia, because they change the way the brain functions. In particular, neurones in the hippocampus become dysfunctional, and this has a whole range of knock on effects that include an inability to sleep normally. The disturbed … Continue reading

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Sedative and Hypnotic Effects of Myrtle

Myrtle (Myrtus communis) is a plant used as a traditional medicine. In certain countries such as Ethiopia extracts of the plant are used for the purpose of treating insomnia. Incidence of insomnia ranges from 10 to 20 % depending on … Continue reading

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