By Ranita Ray
World Sleep Day is on 17 March in 2023. It's time to resonate with this year's theme, i.e., sleep is essential for health. Our diet too plays a key role. Eating potassium, magnesium, calcium, and iron-rich foods increases melatonin, which regulates sleep. These 10 foods induce sleep.
While being dehydrated makes it harder to get to sleep and stay asleep. Watermelon has high water content and is ideal for pre-bedtime hydration and post-dinner snacking.
Minerals enhance circulation and muscular contraction, and this process helps you sleep. Figs are a great potassium, magnesium, calcium, fibre and iron source.
Increasing melatonin levels is the best way to improve sleep. Natural sources of melatonin include cherries. Sleep hygiene is enhanced with their everyday consumption.
A bowl of oatmeal in the evening can help you get a good night's sleep. Oats are a great sleep aid since they contain the sleep hormone melatonin.
Prunes are rich in vitamin B6, calcium, and magnesium, which help produce melatonin, the sleep hormone. Consume a handful of prunes 30 minutes before bedtime.
Potassium, magnesium, and calcium in sweet potatoes help you relax. As a healthy dessert after dinner, sprinkle honey and sea salt on roasted sweet potatoes or top with nut butter.
The combination of protein, vitamin B6, and magnesium in pistachios makes them a potent sleep aid. However, limit your pistachio intake to 1 ounce.
Only a handful of almonds will put you to sleep. Almonds' tryptophan and magnesium naturally ease your body and mind and maintain a regular heartbeat.
Dark chocolate contains the feel-good chemical serotonin, which has a sedative impact on the body and mind. Its other health benefits are significant.
This chickpea spread contains tryptophan. Eating hummus as a spread on three small meals and two snacks during the day can increase your sleep quality at night.