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Oatmeal is a good late-night snack because it contains melatonin, releases serotonin, doesn’t take long to digest and helps keep you full throughout the night. Getty Images
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When you’re wrestling with a restless night, Breus recommends another method to get you back to sleep: the 4-7-8 breathing technique to slow the heart rate and relax you. Inhale for four seconds ...
It has also been shown that when slow-wave sleep was suppressed for three nights, young healthy subjects were 25% less sensitive to insulin. [3] They needed more insulin to get rid of the same amount of glucose. If the body does not release more insulin to compensate, the blood-glucose levels will increase.
Melatonin's potential to regulate weight gain is posited to involve its inhibitory effect on leptin, a hormone that serves as a long-term indicator of the body's energy status. [31] [32] Leptin is important for regulating energy balance and body weight by signaling satiety and reducing food intake.
Melatonin can lower follicle-stimulating hormone levels. [52] Melatonin's effects on human reproduction remain unclear. [53] Some supplemental melatonin users report an increase in vivid dreaming. Extremely high doses of melatonin increased REM sleep time and dream activity in people both with and without narcolepsy. [54]
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Postprandial somnolence (colloquially known as food coma, after-dinner dip, or "the itis") is a normal state of drowsiness or lassitude following a meal. Postprandial somnolence has two components: a general state of low energy related to activation of the parasympathetic nervous system in response to mass in the gastrointestinal tract , and a ...