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Welcome to the Dr. Berg's Healthy Kito and Interminute fasting podcast, where Dr. Berg takes you on the journey for the truth about getting healthy and losing healthy weight. Today we're going to talk about why counting sheep is not the best technique to help

you fall asleep because counting is a form of thinking.

Because any time you start counting or thinking about sheep or thinking in general, you're

going to activate the mind and an activated mind is not going to help you sleep.

People are thinking way too much. In fact, I think thinking is overrated,

especially when you're trying to get the sleep.

Solving problems, activate stress,

and then you might think of positive thoughts,

and then you might get excited. thoughts and then you might get excited

that's going to keep you up. So thinking is the worst thing to do if you're trying

to sleep. But sometimes it's hard just to turn it off. So I'm going to show you a

really good technique that I use to help you stop thinking.

But first let's talk about some basics. I've done a lot of videos on sleep.

So this is a quick review. So alcohol will definitely keep you up unless you drink a lot of it, in which case you're going to be unconscious and you wake up with a hangover, so this is not a good option for sleeping.

Caffeine and coffee and tea, and there's a little bit in chocolate

but chocolate has a stimulant okay so chocolate will keep you up and other

caffeinated beverages not to mention all the sodas that people are drinking.

So if you do a bit too much, and I'm talking about like more than one in the morning,

you may find that that's the reason why you're not sleeping because it's not

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