Why VALERIAN ROOT Should NOT be Taken for Sleep
Dr. Berg’s Healthy Keto and Intermittent Fasting Podcast
Dr. Eric Berg
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🗓️ 13 April 2022
⏱️ 9 minutes
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Learn why you shouldn’t use valerian root for insomnia and discover other natural ways to reduce your anxiety, improve your sleep, and lift your mood.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Dr. Berg's Healthy Keto and Interminute Fasting podcast, where Dr. Berg takes you |
| 0:08.4 | on the journey for the truth about getting healthy and losing healthy weight. |
| 0:29.7 | So if you're going to use Valerian root, I would recommend using it for anxiety, but not insomnia. |
| 0:30.9 | And I'm going to tell you why. |
| 0:32.6 | Of course, let me give you the disclaimer. |
| 0:35.6 | Check with your doctor before taking this advice. |
| 0:36.2 | Okay. |
| 0:39.6 | Don't come off your medications because of me. So this is just meant for education and for you to do your own research. But Valerian root, okay, and Valium, |
| 0:46.2 | have been shown to have really no significant difference in effectiveness. So in other words, |
| 0:52.3 | they both work the same for anxiety, yet Valerian root has virtually |
| 0:58.2 | no side effects. And Valium has major side effects, especially trying to come off that drug. |
| 1:05.0 | Now, they both work to increase GABA. And the way they do it is they block GABA receptors, |
| 1:11.9 | slightly differently, but the same effect. So if you block the GABA. And the way they do it is they block GABA receptors, slightly differently, |
| 1:19.7 | but the same effect. So if you block the GABA receptor, you have less recycling and GABA just stays around a lot longer, giving you more GABA. And GABA is a neurotransmitter that helps |
| 1:25.2 | make you calm. It helps reduce stress. It's an inhibitory neurotransmitter. And when someone's deficient in GABA is a neurotransmitter that helps make you calm. It helps reduce stress. |
| 1:28.0 | It's an inhibitory neurotransmitter. And when someone's deficient in GABA, they might have more |
| 1:33.2 | anxiety. They might have more insomnia. Yet when someone's deficient in serotonin, okay, |
| 1:40.1 | yet this has never been proven. There's just theories. The person is more likely to get insomnia and |
| 1:44.7 | depression. So with serotonin deficiencies, we have depression. With GABA deficiencies, we have |
| 1:50.7 | anxiety. Now, of course, I like to always focus on natural remedies, but realize that as you're |
| 1:56.6 | coping with this problem with a natural remedy that has lesser side effects, you always want to be |
| 2:02.5 | finding the deeper cause. You want to be getting to the root. Now, there's many ways to increase |
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