One of the core symptoms of fibromyalgia is sleep disturbance. This can mean difficulty staying asleep, sleep apnea, restless leg syndrome, or simply nonrestorative sleep. Lack of restorative sleep lowers our pain threshold and increases our perception of pain, and increased pain leads to worsening sleep, and the vicious fibromyalgia sleep/pain cycle snowballs. Poor sleep […]
5-HTP Benefits
You’ve probably heard the old adage that eating turkey on Thanksgiving Day will make you sleepy because turkey contains tryptophan. Actually, this is a myth. While turkey does contain tryptophan, it is not enough to make you drowsy and has no more than what is found in most other proteins. Most likely you’ve just overindulged […]