Welcome to the Dr. Berg, Healthy Keto and Intimitant Fasting Podcast.

Now your host, the man taking your health to a whole new level.

Dr. Eric Berg.

You know, when I was in practice for 30 years, I would say nearly 100% of every single person who could not sleep,

especially the ones that had chronic sleeping issues,

always had gut issues.

Either they had irritable bowel syndrome or celiac or Crohn's or diureticulitis or heartburn

or bloating or indigestion, something was going on in the

stomach. And this is probably why when people take pro-bogics before bed, they sleep better. So today I'm

going to talk about the link between your digestion and your sleeping and give you some tips on

how to improve your sleeping.

I've done a lot of videos on sleeping, especially related to light and how that affects the

circadian rhythms, how it can either stimulate or inhibit sleep, depending on how much

fluorescent light or LED light that you're exposed to. So if you haven't seen that video, that would be

also very important. I'll put that link down below. But you have this clock in your brain, the super

chiasmic nuclei, or you might want to pronounce it superchaasmic. I'm not even sure how do you pronounce

it exactly. But there's a clock in your brain that regulates your sleep patterns.

And that clock uses as its main hormone, something called melatonin.

And so the question is, how do you get enough melatonin to make this clock work correctly?

Should you just take it as a supplement?

And I don't recommend that because anytime you take a hormone, you really are treating the symptom.

You're not getting rid of the cause.

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