If you are someone who throws and turns at night, you know that it is a problem that affects more than your dream. Lack of sleep soon also wreaks havoc with your daytime routine.

Are you tired of being tired? If so, you can read and see one of the culprits that may be preventing you from sleeping like a baby; out of whack sugar levels. Hypoglycemia is a condition of low blood sugar levels, which can cause problems sleeping.

How is your bedtime routine?

Does this sound familiar? It is ending a long day and soon he will go to bed. A bowl of ice cream and a cookie sound like a good snack at bedtime, so enjoy one and go to bed. You fall asleep quickly.

But then, in the middle of the night, you get up and you just can not go back to sleep. Go round and round and lie down thinking about the day before and what you have to do tomorrow. Your mind repeats things over and over and you are frustrated because you need to sleep desperately but you can not go back to sleep.

Or do you experience this scenario? You eat your ice cream and go to bed, only to find yourself going around and around. You do not sleep well You have strange and frightening dreams, like running to escape danger and jump off a cliff. You wake up in a sweat; Feeling that you have been run over by a train. You are not rested and you feel that you have been in a battle all night in your dreams.

What’s going on?

Do you remember the ice cream (or something sweet) that you ate before going to bed? Well, it causes your blood sugar to increase rapidly. Then, the pancreas in turn produces an insulin shock to lower sugar levels, but it produces too much insulin. Now your sugar levels are going down too fast.

And, as you are asleep, you will not be eating something that will allow you to exceed your blood sugar levels. Therefore, your body resorts to your adrenal system to trigger the release of glycogen stored in the bloodstream. It works and your blood sugar levels increase.

However, the problem is that now you also have fight or flight hormones that run through the bloodstream. One of these hormones, norepinephrine, is also a neurotransmitter. It makes your mind start and think, develop a plan to fight and escape from danger; Turn your sweet dreams into nightmares.

Sleeping like a baby does not have to be a dream!

Clearly, lack of sleep detracts from their quality of life. The good news is that simple changes in diet can be made to help control low blood sugar and improve sleep quality.

Do this. Include some protein in your diet. The protein is essential to control the low blood sugar because it slows the absorption of sugar in the bloodstream and causes a gradual increase in blood sugar instead of an increase in the straight line.

Never eat a carbohydrate alone. Always have it with a protein. If you are awake at night and have trouble going back to sleep, eat something with some protein, a little carbohydrate and a little fatty acid; like a piece of cheese and a cookie, or a handful of peanuts.

Your next step? Take what you just learned and put it into practice. This really simple diet change is easy to do and can allow you to lay your head on the pillow and sleep like a baby.

May your nights be full of sweet sleep and your life be filled with prosperity!