Sleep is essential to your health. Sleep plays an important role in your body’s healing process. It helps support brain function, keeps your emotions under control, and reduces the risk of disease, to name a few of the many ways sleep contributes to your health. Sleep recharges our bodies and gets us ready for the day ahead. It keeps our minds sharp, and it promotes physical and emotional health. There are many things you can do to get a great night’s sleep; here are just a few things you can do to get to sleep and stay asleep!
Winding Down
Creating a nighttime routine is one way to prepare yourself for a good night of sleep. Everyone has a different way of winding down, but everyone could benefit from finding a routine that works for them and sticking to it!
A few winding down tips:
- Chamomile Tea: this tea has calming stress-soothing affects that promote relaxation
- Turn Off Blue-Light: using the nightime mode on your cell phone will reduce the blue light exposure which can keep you up at night
- Take an Epsom Salt Bath: epsom salt is a naturally occurring mineral salt also known as Magnesium Sulfate. Magnesium helps regulate meletonin in the body, promoting better sleep
- Read before bed: reading is a great way to get your mind off of the day and relax before bed
Products for Better Sleep
For those nights where you really cannot seem to relax and you need a little extra support getting to sleep, try out some of these awesome products that promote deep and restful sleep.
- Meletonin: meletonin is a naturally occurring hormone that controls our sleep-wake cycle; the dietary supplement is used as a short-term treatment for sleeping troubles helping you to get to sleep and stay asleep
- Magnesium Glycinate: this supplement has calming properties that help relax the body and promote sleep
- Namastay in Bed: this is a plant-based supplement currated with a collection of herbs that help you fall asleep and stay asleep
Chiropractic Care
Regular chiropractic adjustments are an incredible way for great sleep to become a part of your everyday. Chiropractic is all about getting to the root of the problem. This means that the goal is to get the body functioning at its best! Chiropractic adjustments shift your body from a sympathetic state (fight-flight mode) to a parasympathetic state (rest, digest, heal). Your body needs to be in a parasympathetic state in order to sleep, heal, and recharge. The body can get stuck in the sympathetic mode due to subluxations that interfere with the brain-body connection, dysregulating the parasympathetic system.
Chiropractic care works to relieve pain, relax the body, and correct subluxation in the spine. Chronic pain is one of the things that keep people up at night. Correcting this problem will help you to get to sleep and stay asleep!
If you struggle with sleep, try adding chiropractic care into your daily routine.
Invest in Good Bedding
Bedding plays a huge part in the quality of your sleep. Investing in good quality bedding can up your sleep game and lead to a better night’s sleep. For example, finding a really good pillow that supports you as you sleep. A cervical neck pillow is a great way to relieve and support tense neck and shoulder muscles and increase the blood flow to your head. It also helps to improve your posture while you sleep! We sell and recommend the Core-Product, D-Core brand at our office.
