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What Your Bedtime Says About You with Professor Matt Walker

The Checkup with Doctor Mike

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The Role of Antioxidants in Sleep

Magnesium 3 and 8 or mag tea, as it's known, that may be the one exception. Things like valerian root, debatable, chamomile tea, not really. There is some evidence that I think is interesting in two areas. One is glycine. The other is tart cherry juice and kiwis. Both of those things are packed full of something that we call antioxidants. And there's been a revelation in the past four years in the sleep field that antioxidants play a huge and powerful role in regulating our sleep.

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