Why You Can't SLEEP! Simple Fix

Dr. Berg’s Healthy Keto and Intermittent Fasting Podcast

Dr. Eric Berg

Health & Fitness

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🗓️ 7 June 2024

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Summary

In this podcast, I’m going to tell you how to sleep better at night. Many people suffer from numerous sleep issues and disturbances, such as trouble getting to sleep, frequent waking to urinate, sleep apnea, and restless leg syndrome.

Vitamin D can improve all of these sleep issues. Not only can it improve sleep quality, but it can also improve gut health and immune function.

Vitamin D works synergistically with magnesium, which improves cramping, restless leg syndrome, heart palpitations, and high cortisol levels. If you're taking magnesium for these issues and it's not working, it could be because you need vitamin D. Vitamin D is one of the most powerful anti-inflammatories.

Sleep, diet, and exercise are vital for your health, with sleep at the top of the list. The nerves in the hypothalamus that control sleep are full of vitamin D receptors. If you’re obese, diabetic, or aging, your need for vitamin D dramatically increases.

Less than 40 ng/mL of vitamin D can negatively affect your health. Vitamin D levels should be between 70 and 100 ng/mL or more for therapeutic benefit.

Blood tests detect the inactive form of vitamin D and can’t tell you if vitamin D is reaching your cells. Try taking at least 30,000 IUs of vitamin D3 for better sleep, and remember to consume plenty of water daily. Cut down on dairy to limit calcium intake and take vitamin K2, magnesium, zinc, and vitamin B6, the cofactors of vitamin D.

For better sleep, try the following sleeping tips:

•Take vitamin D with cofactors at the last meal of the day

•Make sure the room is cool

•Avoid electronics and bright lights 2 hours before bed

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0:00.0	I want to give you a really important recommendation to take at dinner time to help you get into the most wonderful deep restorative sleep.
0:08.0	Now for years I've suffered with a sleep problem.
0:11.0	It pretty much started after basic training when I was forced to wake up at
0:15.3	four o'clock every morning for three months and after that somehow my body was trained I could not
0:20.3	sleep past four o'clock for many years so I would just go to bed early but I was still only
0:26.2	getting about six to six and a half hours of sleep four years and I would always just cope by
0:32.1	napping and try to get more sleep, but it wasn't until I got eight
0:36.7	hours of consistent day after day sleep, but I discovered for myself how important this sleep is.
0:44.0	Now if we dissect your sleep, we have several situations.
0:47.0	We have people that can't get the sleep.
0:49.0	There's people that get up through the night and have to urine it very frequently.
0:52.0	Sleep apnea, restless leg syndrome. Every single one of those
0:56.7	problems I just mentioned can be resolved by this one remedy and that is Vitamin D. Usually you cannot fix your sleep by taking
1:06.6	regular amounts of Vitamin D. In fact if you look at some of the studies that
1:10.4	don't show that Vitamin D can help your sleep, they're just using very, very tiny amounts.
1:16.2	You know, people are concerned with the toxic effect of vitamin D, but there's a way to counter that very easily.
1:22.0	Also, vitamin D can fix a lot of problems in your gut, believe it or not.
1:27.5	Not to mention all the different connections with Vitamin D in your immune system.
1:31.2	Vitamin D also works with magnesium.
1:34.5	Those two are kind of partners
1:36.0	and their ability to work together.
1:37.9	And magnesium is behind all sorts of problems
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