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Re: How food affects sleep, from NYTimes

Post by chunkyfrog » Tue Jan 25, 2022 11:35 pm

Good way to avoid a paywall.
I use a similar tactic to slip around yahoo rabbit holes.
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Re: How food affects sleep, from NYTimes

Post by PaulSmt » Wed Jan 11, 2023 4:24 am

According to a New York Times article, the foods we eat and the timing of when we eat them can have a significant impact on the quality of our sleep. Consuming large meals close to bedtime can make it more difficult to fall asleep, as the body is still working to digest the food. Eating spicy or fatty foods can also cause indigestion and heartburn, which can be disruptive to sleep.

On the other hand, certain foods can help promote sleep. Foods that are high in the amino acid tryptophan, such as turkey and dairy products, can help to increase the production of the neurotransmitter serotonin, which can have a calming effect and help to induce sleep. Similarly, foods that are high in magnesium, such as leafy green vegetables and almonds, can also help to promote relaxation and improve sleep.

The timing of when we eat is also important for sleep. Consuming a moderate-sized meal about three hours before bedtime can be beneficial for sleep, as it allows the body to fully digest the food before going to sleep. Click for more recipes to guarantee three meals per day. Additionally, avoiding stimulating foods or drinks such as caffeine, nicotine, and alcohol close to bedtime can also help to ensure better sleep.

It's also important to remember that, everyone is different and what works for one person may not work for another. Pay attention to your own body, and adjust your diet and eating habits accordingly to help you achieve better sleep.
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Re: How food affects sleep, from NYTimes

Post by Julie » Wed Jan 11, 2023 10:17 am

Just thought I'd mention that very recently it's been shown that tryptophan doesn't cause sleepiness... but don't have a citing here to show you.

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Re: How food affects sleep, from NYTimes

Post by ChicagoGranny » Wed Jan 11, 2023 12:25 pm

Julie wrote:
Wed Jan 11, 2023 10:17 am
Just thought I'd mention that very recently it's been shown that tryptophan doesn't cause sleepiness... but don't have a citing here to show you.
Tryptophan can cause sleepiness. However,
Why doesn't eating turkey make you sleepy?
Eating turkey — or any other food high in tryptophan — doesn't make you sleepy because of the way tryptophan gets into your brain. In addition to tryptophan, turkey contains protein, which your body breaks down into other amino acids. The amount of tryptophan in turkey is small compared with the amount of other amino acids.

Tryptophan must use special transport proteins to get to your brain because of your blood-brain barrier (BBB). Your body is particular about what it lets into your brain and spinal cord, which make up your central nervous system. Your BBB is a line of cells that prevent viruses, fungi, bacteria, and parasites that might be in your blood from getting into your central nervous system. Since tryptophan can't freely circulate into your brain, it has to hitch a ride on a transport protein to cross the blood-brain barrier.

Other amino acids also use these transport proteins, so after you eat turkey, there are a lot of them competing to get to your brain. Because there isn't as much tryptophan as other amino acids, its chance of getting to your brain is pretty small. So after you eat a turkey, you may have more tryptophan in your body, but not much of it is getting to your brain, where it can help you produce melatonin.


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Re: How food affects sleep, from NYTimes

Post by lazarus » Wed Jan 11, 2023 2:19 pm

I've made it a rule never to eat while I'm asleep. Hey, just me.

I wonder if it would be easier to try to make a list of what doesn't affect sleep than it would be to make a list of what does, since pretty much anything and everything that affects life at all would be expected to have some effect on the sleeping third of it right along with the waking two thirds.

But hey, ya gotta study something, I guess, right? Otherwise ya get no grades or get no paycheck or get no funding. They don't train and pay those research dudes to sit around on their butts all year just waiting for something sensible to study, after all.

Headline: "Science, After a 20-Year Study, Has Just Discovered a Strain of Turnips That Appears to Have Zero Effect on Sleep, or Anything Else for That Matter!"

It's a lot like how the newscasters gotta report on something all day, whether they actually have anything particularly meaningful or useful to say about it all or not.

Much like my posts, come to think of it.

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Re: How food affects sleep, from NYTimes

Post by chunkyfrog » Fri Jan 13, 2023 12:31 pm

When a "journalist" is paid by the word,
he only needs to fool the rich kid signing the checks.
Nice work if you can get/buy it.

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