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Can you fight insomnia with food?

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Back everybody bad diet can interfere with your getting a good night's sleep doctor Siegel is it what -- reading or when -- It's both.

Here's we're gonna say to people no caffeine no alcohol drink plenty water don't.

-- close to bedtime and there are a couple of little -- you could use tart cherry Jews believe it or not.

Has melatonin in which may help you sleep.

Apples bananas and Eric's favorite Greek yogurt has a lot of calcium in -- which may help usually warm milk played at night if you can't sleep.

-- -- anything that increases melatonin as mark mentioned grapes cherries those -- great.

Anything that increases tryptophan.

You know cottage cheese for example knots.

Palatable thing of all know for breakfast and you can have a little -- my -- that's okay and also the best thing is kind of milk -- ginger.

And make sure that you always eat two to four hours before you go to bed so you leave enough time for digestion.

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