How to Sleep All Night Without Sleeping Pills. Natural Cure for Insomnia

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By Sophia Angelique

Natural Cure for Insomnia

A good night's sleep can be hard to find, and it's no accident that, the sleeping pill market is close is $5 billion globally.Everybody needs about seven hours sleep every night but many struggle to get this. Sleeping pills can be both addictive and dangerous.So, even though some would say that a cure for sleeplessness is hard to find, here are some natural cures for insomnia or how to sleep all night without sleeping pills.

Two Approaches
There are two approaches to getting a full night’s sleep. The first is to remove the stressors that are keeping from one getting all the sleep one needs. The second is to repair the body’s sleep mechanisms. For instance, did you know that melatonin was necessary in order to get a good night’s sleep? Well, did you know that if you don’t get a good night’s sleep, the body doesn’t produce melatonin, so it’s a catch 22 situation. If you don’t sleep, your body doesn’t produce melatonin, and if you don’t produce melatonin, you don’t sleep. Taking a Melatonin supplement can, therefore, be a natural cure for insomnia.


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Natural Cure for Insomnia. Salt can cure sleeplessness.
Natural Cure for Insomnia. Salt can cure sleeplessness.

How to Prevent Sleep Interference
Did you know that both TV and computers affected the melatonin producing gland negatively? Research has shown that those people who watch television before bed, play computers games, or surf the net, produce less melatonin than those who don’t. Subsequently, their sleep is either short lived or interrupted. Eventually, sleep deprivation becomes a way of life, a catch 22 situation that perpetuates itself until one suffers from depression, gains weight, and has little energy left to do anything. So, one of the first things to go needs to be watching television or working on a computer anytime after five in the evening. Incidentally, computers are even worse for sleep than television. So simply not watching television is a contributing factor when it comes to a cure for insomnia.

Melatonin
Obviously, if your pineal gland hasn’t produced a decent amount of melatonin, you need to supplement. However, before you rush to take melatonin, let me explain a little bit more about this substance. It can cause depression and sleeplessness. What it actually does is make the body prepare for darkness, and when the body prepares for darkness, it prepares to go to sleep. That’s why television and computers (which emit a lot of light) interfere with the sleep process.

So, only take a very little about an hour before you go to bed. Generally, women should take about 100 micrograms and men about 150 micrograms. Don’t take more. In this case, less is more. You can read about melatonin in the link in the side bar. Remember that in your search for a cure for sleeplessness, you may need to combine many different factors, including behavior change and adding supplements or even exercise!

Sea Salt

Did you know that sea salt makes you sleep? In a world where doctors are constantly telling consumers to decrease their consumption of salt, it is strange that sea salt makes one sleep. Well, there’s a vast difference between sea salt and table salt. Table salt is derived from Halite, the mineral form of sodium chloride. It does not have the same composition as salt derived from the ocean through evaporation. In Africa, when the Africans get ill, they drink sea water,

The difficulty with saying that a glass of water with a quarter teaspoon of salt shortly before going to bed will make you sleep is that all that excess sodium chloride in your body mined from halite is going to interfere with this remedy. So, probably, this is going to take a little time. Firstly, switch from using table salt to using sea salt (and read the label) and then eliminate all processed foods from your diet (they contain an inordinate amount of ground up halite). Once that is accomplished, take that quarter teaspoon of sea salt in water about an hour before you go to bed. It aids sleep wonderfully! Remember to combine more than one cure for insomnia. That way, it will be easier to cure yourself from sleeplessness!

You can read more about sea salt in the link in the side bar.

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Get Some Sun!
Have you ever noticed how after a day in the sun you sleep well? While currently it is thought that Vitamin D depletion might result in sleeplessness, because the body is a multi-faceted organism, it’s probably more than that. Spending a good hour or two in the sun every day makes sure that you sleep more easily and it considered a natural cure for insomnia.

Is the sun bad for you? I’ve spent my life in the sun. I spent eight hours a day in the sun until I was thirty. I was so chocolate brown that some had difficulty believing my race! I still go out in the sun on a summer’s day. It makes me feel wonderful. No, I absolutely and utterly do not put those deadly screens on my body. There has been some evidence that some of the ingredients in them cause cancer. However, more than that, mankind has been living in the sun for millennia. Why on earth would the sun be bad for you? Of course, it’s not. What’s bad is the lack of nutrients in the human body caused by bad diet. This means that the body doesn’t have enough of the required substances used to protect against the sun.

Yes, one does need some protection. I use raw coconut oil. So do people in the Philippines. They have beautiful skins and they are in the sun all day long. However, if you have a pale skin (this is genetic), you will need to experiment to find something that prevents burn without preventing the sun from producing vitamin D in your skin. It’s a good bet that the sun produces other things as well as Vitamin D. It just hasn’t been discovered yet.

In any event, there is a correlation between sufficient Vitamin D and sleep. Get some more Vitamin D and you will find that this is another good natural cure for insomnia.

For more about this, read the article in the link in the side bar.

Sleep and Exercise

Bodies Did Not Evolve in Seated Positions: Exercise.
Your body needs exercise – but not last thing at night. If you exercise in the evening, it will keep you awake. You need to exercise in the morning or during the day. If you’re sitting on a seat all day, change your job. Your body was not designed to be seated all day. Yes, I understand it’s easier said than done, but modern lifestyle is directly responsible for 95% of all illness in America. If you drive a BMW into the ocean, it will float the way a ship does. That’s just the way it is. It is essential that you live in tune with the body you have. If you have no choice about being seated all day, then take an hour and a half for lunch and go work out. If your boss has a problem, find another boss. Yes, easier said than done, but long term, it’s going to give you a longer, happier, more restful life. Getting the right amount of exercise for being human is another another natural cure for insomnia. Remember that sleeplessness will disappear when the body has been exercised.


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A dessert spoon of Braggs apple cider vinegar (it’s the only one that works) with an eighth of a teaspoon of bicarbonate of soda added to water is a lovely fizzy drink. It improves digestion, energy, and sleep. It also makes weight reduction easier. You can read more about this on the Earthclinic website. Many give testimony of how apple cider vinegar proved to be a natural cure for insomnia. They say they now sleep all night without sleeping pills.

Lugol’s Iodine

Some have noticed improved sleep after taking Lugol’s iodine. Yes, there is a relationship between iodine deficiency and insomnia. So, nothing is lost by taking a small tincture of Lugol’s iodine every second day in the morning. You can read more about Lugol’s iodine in the link provided.

Cure Sleeplessness by Using a Natural Cure for Insomnia.
It's not good to take sleeping pills. Yes, they're okay for the occasional emergency (once every ten years), but for the most part, it's best to find a natural cure for insomnia and to cure sleeplessness without sleeping pills. Natural cures for sleeplessness seem to be fairly abundant. Using them all together, rather than individually, seems to be the best idea. The sum of the parts, in this case, is greater than the whole!


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So, there you have it. If you add most of these changes to your current lifestyle, you should be able to get a good night’s sleep every night and wake up happy, rested, and with sufficient energy to get on with the rest of your day.

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diogenes Level 7 Commenter 13 months ago

Another well crafted hub with lots most of us don't know. Does sex produce melatotin? It seems to aid with getting to sleep (I vaguely remember!)

Cheers Bob

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Sophia Angelique Hub Author 13 months ago

Bob. No. :)

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primpo Level 2 Commenter 13 months ago

wow, like this.. thanks..

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Sophia Angelique Hub Author 13 months ago

@primpo. My pleasure! :)

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Carolyn2008 Level 2 Commenter 13 months ago

Very good Hub.

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Injured lamb Level 5 Commenter 4 months ago

Thanks for sharing this informative hub Sophia, it's nice and clear...

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mljdgulley354 Level 7 Commenter 4 months ago

This is a very informative hub. I have been using sea salt and vinegar for a little over 2 years now and it has made a remarkable difference in my overall health and being able to sleep.

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Sophia Angelique Hub Author 4 months ago

Mijdgulley 0 I found the same thing!

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urmilashukla23 Level 5 Commenter 3 months ago

Very informative. I have not tried sea salt. Definitely will try. Thanks for sharing this.

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Sophia Angelique Hub Author 3 months ago

urmilashuia23. You're welcome. Make sure it's organic natural sea salt dried naturally by the sun. :) Good luck. :)

gmwilliams Level 7 Commenter 3 months ago

To Sophia: This is an excellent, well researched, and informative hub. I have gained some pointers. However, I have found that when I listen to Indian music and take a hot lavender bath, I fall asleep instantly.

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Sophia Angelique Hub Author 3 months ago

gmwilliams. That makes perfect sense. I'm sure you know that there are four rhythm states in the brain: beta, alpha, theta, and delta. Also, I'm sure you know that both light and music can be used for brain entrainment. Indian music would trigger the theta state of mind which is the brain rhythm just before one falls asleep. Didn't know about the lavender, but it is one of my favorite scents! :)

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