Many of us feel we could do with more sleep. However, the demands of modern life make this dream largely impossible.
But there is an alternative. Instead of always wishing we could have time for just a little more sleep, we can improve the quality of what sleep we do get.
The following are 4 tips for ensuring you get the very best quality sleep possible.
Sleep in Complete Darkness
It has been shown through scientific research that the release of melatonin is light sensitive. Light inhibits melatonin release whenever it touches skin but the eyes are especially important.
Even as much light as produced by a single candle has an effect of reducing nighttime melatonin release.
These days melatonin is sold as a sleep aid. But why buy and take a synthetic chemical when you can make your own, all natural, melatonin?
It may also interest you to know that melatonin is the single most potent antioxidant known to man. Our bodies naturally enjoy a nightly melatonin bath but only if you sleep in complete darkness.
You should probably also know that it takes a respectable number of hours of melatonin release before other vital hormones become activated.
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