Dr. Berg’s Healthy Keto and Intermittent Fasting Podcast

Why You Can't SLEEP! Simple Fix

Jun 7, 2024

05:20

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Learn how Vitamin D can significantly improve your sleep quality by addressing common issues like trouble falling asleep, frequent urination at night, sleep apnea, and restless leg syndrome. Discover the synergistic benefits of Vitamin D with magnesium, and the importance of maintaining optimal Vitamin D levels for overall health and sleep improvement.

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Vitamin D improves sleep quality and alleviates issues like insomnia and restless leg syndrome.

Maintaining vitamin D levels between 70-100 ng/mL with cofactors supports better sleep and overall health.

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Impact of Vitamin D on Sleep Quality

Vitamin D plays a crucial role in enhancing sleep quality and addressing various sleep-related issues such as insomnia, frequent urination at night, sleep apnea, and restless leg syndrome. Studies suggest that higher doses of vitamin D, when taken with magnesium, can significantly improve sleep by addressing issues like cramping, heart palpitations, and high cortisol levels that hinder sleep patterns. Additionally, vitamin D has potent anti-inflammatory properties, promoting better blood sugar levels and overall health.

The Impact of Vitamin D on Sleep Quality

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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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