Melatonin = “Mellow-tonin”
Zzzzzzzz zzzzzz zzzzzz zzzzzz!
Usually Sleep Tip #1 does the trick in about 10 minutes. That is, alternating listening to the nothingness, and relaxing. But on those nights that that is not enough I have another weapon.
For the last 2 nights I have tried to go to bed early only to have ideas pop into my head that I felt the need to follow up on such as:
- looking up the caloric breakdown of peanuts vs cauliflower on the internet.
- I know it’s kind of geeky, but did you know cauliflower has more protein per calorie than peanuts?
Anyway, I stayed up too late and was tired in the morning two days in a row. So last night I decided I was really going to get some sleep so I pulled out my secret weapon. Melatonin.
I buy the 3mg Melatonin capsules and break them in half, and then in half again so I get somewhere around 1mg. You have to experiment with the dosage yourself, too little and you don’t notice any difference, too much and you are too sleepy in the morning. 1mg seems to work really good for me. I only rarely use this method to induce sleep, but man did I sleep great last night!
The great thing about melatonin is it is something your body naturally makes that gives you the sleepy feeling. Also, if something/someone wakes me up for some reason, falling back to sleep is really easy. Normally falling back to sleep after a disturbance is as hard as falling asleep in the first place! I hate that.
So in recap – if Tip #1 is a little lacking in potency at times, try a mg or so of Melatonin and see how it goes.
Start of a New Day 